In-situ experimental and numerical investigation on fatigue crack growth in perfluorosulfonic-acid membrane with overloading effect

Liang Cai, Pilin Song, Ibrahim Elbugdady, Tatsuo Sakai, Wei Li*

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Abstract

Fatigue crack growth behavior of perfluorosulfonic-acid membrane is investigated under single overload conditions by in-situ fatigue testing. The results show that the effected range of overload on cyclic plasticity positively correlates with the overload ratio (Rol), indicating that overload-induced residual stress is aggravated with increase of Rol. Besides, crack-tip sharpening occurred at higher Rol can promote cyclic plasticity deformation, thus initially accelerating the crack growth. Moreover, the cyclic plasticity can be used to interpret the post-overload crack growth. Based on plastically dissipated energy, a numerical scheme incorporated with developed elastic-viscoplastic constitutive relationship is established to predict the fatigue crack growth.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110175
JournalEngineering Fracture Mechanics
Volume305
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2024

Keywords

  • Constitutive modeling
  • Cyclic plastic zone
  • In-situ
  • Plastically dissipated energy
  • Single overload

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