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The effect of the environmental conditions on the threshold against fatigue crack propagation
(2021)
The threshold against fatigue crack propagation (ΔKth) is a crucial parameter for the damage tolerance assessment of engineering components subjected to cyclic loading and it is composed by two distinct components, one intrinsic, dependent on the elastic material properties and the lattice type, and one extrinsic, related to the occurrence of crack closure effects. An important issue is that several factors can influence ΔKth and, in general, the fatigue crack propagation behavior. In this work, the influence of the experimental procedure, air humidity and test parameters on da/dN-ΔK data has been investigated. Results are discussed with their potential causes and consequences on the calculations of the residual lifetime.
To assess the ability of cracks to grow, a robust determination of the threshold against fatigue crack propagation ∆Kth is of paramount importance. The standards ASTM E647 and ISO 12108 introduce operational definitions of ∆Kth based on the crack propagation rate da/dN. For evaluating ∆Kth, both suggest fitting a linear function to a defined subset of the logarithmic ∆K – da/dN test data, where ∆Kth follows by evaluating the linear function at da/dN = 10-7 mm/cycle and da/dN = 10-8 mm/cycle, respectively.
In general, this kind of fit suffers from a bad representation of the actual curvature of the crack propagation curve. Therefore, we propose a robust method for evaluating ∆Kth using a non-linear function that reduces the artificial conservativeness induced by the evaluation method as well as the susceptibility to scatter in test data and the influence of test data density. The method is calibrated against a large set of S690QL crack growth data obtained from a total of 48 specimens, and validated against a set of S355NL and S960QL data (3 specimens each), obtained as a part the IBESS (integral fracture mechanics determination of the fatigue strength of welds) project.