Modified CCS fatigue crack growth model for the AA2019-T851 based on plasticity-induced crack-closure

Abstract Several fatigue cracks growth laws have been suggested over the past 50 years. Recently, a fatigue crack propagation law was proposed by Castillo-Canteli-Siegele (CCS model) based on the assumption that fatigue crack growth takes the form of a Gumbel cumulative distribution function. Besides many physical aspects, the fatigue crack propagation laws need to account for fatigue crack opening and closure effects. Thus, in this paper a modification of the CCS fatigue crack growth law is proposed to account for the crack opening and closure effects, as well as the stress R-ratio effect, Rσ. The fatigue crack opening and closure effects are taken into account using a plasticity-induced crack-closure model. Other fatigue crack closure models can also be used in the proposed modification of the CCS crack growth model through the quantitative parameter U = ΔKeff/ΔK. This modified CCS crack propagation model using the effective stress intensity factor range, ΔKeff, is a new version of an explicit fatigue crack propagation model, supported by mathematical and physical assumptions. In this paper, the proposed model is applied using the fatigue crack growth data and mechanical properties that were collected for the 2219-T851 aluminium alloy. Based on the plasticity-induced crack-closure model, which was first formulated by Newman, and in this paper modified with a boundary correction factor, Fw, the crack opening stress intensity factor, Kop, and quantitative parameter U are determined. The results showed a good agreement between the proposed modification of the CCS fatigue crack propagation model taking into account the plasticity-induced crack-closure model with the boundary correction factor and experimental results of the fatigue crack propagation data for the 2219-T851 aluminium alloy.

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