TY - CONF A1 - Gesell, Stephan A1 - Fedelich, Bernard A1 - Ganesh, Rahul A1 - Kuna, Meinhard A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Kiefer, Björn T1 - A CTOD-based crack growth law for thermomechanical fatigue N2 - Due to combined cyclic mechanical and thermal loading during operation, the material of exhaust gas conducting components of combustion engines is exposed to thermomechanical fatigue (TMF). This leads to formation and growth of cracks, especially at the most highly stressed points of these components. In order to better predict the service life of cracked components before failure, it is necessary to identify a crack propagation law for the material used. Isothermal crack propagation tests have been carried out at several temperatures with a typical cast iron to identify such a law. The crack length is measured by the potential drop method. The compliance method, fractography and thermographic camera measurements have been used to validate and calibrate the potential drop measurements. Each of the isothermal tests has been simulated using a specially developed FEM-algorithm based on remeshing and remapping. This algorithm has been implemented in python and ABAQUS. Thereby, the crack tip region is modeled by collapsed Quad8 elements. From the individual simulations, the cyclic crack tip opening displacement (ΔCTOD) is extracted and regarded as a potential fracture mechanics parameter which controls the crack growth rate. By combining the data from the experiments and the simulations, the crack propagation law has been identified. Finally, anisothermal crack propagation tests have been performed for validation of the crack growth law. T2 - European Conference on Fracture 2022 CY - Funchal, Portugal DA - 27.06.2022 KW - Fatigue crack growth KW - Finite elmenet simulation KW - TMF experiments PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56934 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -