Journal
FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS & STRUCTURES
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 95-106Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2006.01084.x
Keywords
elasticity; finite element analysis; notch stress intensity factor; stress intensity factor; V-notches
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The paper presents an expression useful to estimate the notch stress intensity factor (NSIF) from finite element analyses carried out by using a mesh pattern with a constant element size. The evaluation of the NSIF from a numerical analysis of the local stress field usually requires very refined meshes and then large computational effort. The usefulness of the presented expression is that (i) only the elastic peak stress numerically evaluated at the V-notch tip is needed and no longer the whole stress-distance set of data; (ii) the adopted meshes are rather coarse if compared to those necessary for the evaluation of the whole local stress field. The proposed expression needs the evaluation of a virtual V-notch tip radius, i.e. the radius which would produce the same elastic peak stress than that calculated by FEM at the sharp V-notch tip by means of a given mesh pattern. Once such a radius has been theoretically determined for a given geometry, the expression can be applied in a wide range of notch depths and opening angles.
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