ProCrackPlast: a finite element tool to simulate 3D fatigue crack growth under large plastic deformations
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Abstract Many structural components and devices in combustion and automotive engineering undergo highly intensive cyclic thermal and mechanical loading during their operation, which leads to low cycle (LCF) or thermomechanical (TMF) fatigue crack growth. This behavior is often characterized by large scale plastic deformations and creep around the crack, so that concepts of linear-elastic fracture mechanics fail. The finite element softwareProCrackPlast has been developed at TU Bergakademie Freiberg for the automated simulation of fatigue crack growth in arbitrarily loaded three-dimensional components with large scale plastic deformations, in particular under cyclic thermomechanical loading.ProCrackPlast consists of a bundle of Python routines, which manage finite element pre-processing, crack analysis, and post-processing in combination with the commercial softwareAbaqus .ProCrackPlast is based on a crack growth procedure which adaptively updates the crack size in finite increments. Crack growth is controlled by the cyclic crack tip opening displacement$$\varDelta $$CTOD, which is considered as the appropriate fracture-mechanical parameter in case of large scale yielding. The three-dimensional$$\varDelta $$CTOD concept and its effective numerical calculation by means of special crack-tip elements are introduced at first. Next, the program structure, the underlying numerical algorithms and calculation schemes ofProCrackPlast are outlined in detail, which capture the plastic deformation history along with the moving crack. In all simulations, a viscoplastic cyclic material law is used within a large strain setting. The numerical performance of this software is studied for a single edge notch tension (SENT) specimen under isothermal cyclic loading and compared to common finite element techniques for fatigue crack simulation. The capability of this software is featured in two application examples showing crack growth under mixed-mode LCF and TMF in a typical austenite cast steel, Ni-Resist. In combination with a crack growth law identified in terms of$$\varDelta $$CTOD for a specific material, the toolProCrackPlast is able to predict the crack evolution in a 3D component for a given thermomechanical loading scenario.
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OpenAlex topics: Fatigue and fracture mechanics · High Temperature Alloys and Creep · Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
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