Journal
FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS & STRUCTURES
Volume 41, Issue 9, Pages 2040-2053Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ffe.12841
Keywords
elastic-plastic behavior; equivalent material concept (EMC); fracture toughness; friction stir welding (FSW); maximum tangential stress (MTS); mean stress (MS)
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In this research, fracture of dissimilar friction stir welded (FSWed) joint made of Al 7075-T6 and Al 6061-T6 aluminum alloys is investigated in the cracked semi-circular bend (CSCB) specimen under mixed mode I/II loading. Due to the elastic-plastic behavior of the welded material and the existence of significant plastic deformations around the crack tip at the propagation instance, fracture prediction of the FSWed specimens needs some failure criteria in the context of the elastic-plastic fracture mechanics which are very complicated and time-consuming. For this purpose, the Equivalent Material Concept (EMC) is used herein by which the tensile behavior of the welded material is equated with that of a virtual brittle material. By combining EMC with the 2 brittle fracture criteria, namely the maximum tangential stress (MTS) and mean stress (MS) criteria, the load-carrying capacity (LCC) of the FSWed CSCB specimens is predicted. Comparison of the experimental results and theoretical predictions from the 2 criteria showed that both criteria could accurately predict the LCC of the cracked specimens. Moreover, as the contribution of mode II loading increases, the size of the plastic region around the crack tip at failure increases, leading to increasing the LCC.
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