Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
2011-02-23
Engineering Fracture Mechanics 78, 4 (2011) 685-694
Physics
Geophysics
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.11.01
In this work, the finite elements method (FEM) is used to analyse the growth of fretting cracks. FEM can be favourably used to extract the stress intensity factors in mixed mode, a typical situation for cracks growing in the vicinity of a fretting contact. The present study is limited to straight cracks which is a simple system chosen to develop and validate the FEM analysis. The FEM model is tested and validated against popular weight functions for straight cracks perpendicular to the surface. The model is then used to study fretting crack growth and understand the effect of key parameters such as the crack angle and the friction between crack faces. Predictions achieved by this analysis match the essential features of former experimental fretting results, in particular the average crack arrest length can be predicted accurately.
Basseville Stéphanie
Proudhon Henry
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