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Dong, Y., Garbatov, Y. and Guedes Soares, C. (2018), “Fatigue crack initiation assessment of welded joints accounting for residual stress”, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, Vol. 41, pp. 1823-1837
The impact of residual stresses on the fatigue crack initiation life of welded joints is evaluated by the finite element method. The residual stresses of non-load-carrying cruciform joints, induced by welding and ultrasonic impact treatment, are modelled by initial stresses, using the linear superposition principle. An alternative approach of using modified stress-strain curves in the highly stressed zone is also proposed to account for the residual stress effect on the local stress-stain history. An evaluation of the fatigue crack initiation life of welded joints based on the local strain approach is carried out. The predicted results show the effect of residual stresses and agree well with published experimental results. The proposed approaches may provide effective tools to evaluate the residual stress effect on the fatigue crack initiation life of welded joints.
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