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Concurrent ratcheting and stress relaxation at the notch root of steel samples undergoing asymmetric tensile loading cycles
Author(s) -
Shekarian Atefeh,
VarvaniFarahani Ahmad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/ffe.12996
Subject(s) - materials science , structural engineering , hysteresis , stress (linguistics) , stress relaxation , stress–strain curve , low cycle fatigue , composite material , mechanics , deformation (meteorology) , creep , engineering , physics , philosophy , linguistics , quantum mechanics
The current study intends to develop a framework model to assess ratcheting and stress relaxation at the notch root of 1045 steel samples over asymmetric loading cycles. The framework involves the Ahmadzadeh‐Varvani (A‐V) kinematic hardening rule to control ratcheting progress and Neuber rule to accommodate for local stress and strain components at the vicinity of notch root. Plastic strain at notch root was first coupled with its counterpart in the A‐V model to establish a relation between local stress and backstress components. Calculated local stress and strain values at turning points enabled the A‐V model to assess ratcheting strain over each loading cycle. The stepwise drop in stresses at peak‐valley tips of hysteresis loops at the notch root was associated to coupled framework of the A‐V model and Neuber rule through constancy in local strain while ratcheting progressed over each cycle. This relaxed out the local stresses at tips of hysteresis loops to position on Neuber hyperbolic curve. Predicted ratcheting values at notch root of various diameters closely agreed with those of measured in steel samples over stress cycles.