LOCAL INDENTATION AS METHOD OF REDUCING FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATE

The possibility of a significant decrease in the growth rate of a fatigue crack is studied. The goal can be attained by creating a local field of residual stresses near the crack tip which arises due to the indentation of a spherical indenter. A methodology and program algorithm (in ANSYS) have been developed for numerical simulation of the problem in a three-dimensional formulation of the process of fatigue crack growth in the field of residual stresses. Considering the prospects of developing the technique with regard to the use of dynamic indentation, the ANSYS Explicit STR solver fully integrated into the calculation module was used in the macro. Proceeding from the solution of the elastoplastic problem the program provides determination of the fields of residual stresses (RS) at the first stage of the calculation and numerical simulation of the fatigue crack growth on the second stage. The effect of the indentation parameters (magnitude of the force applied to the indenter and the location of the indentation point, conditions of fixing) on the crack growth rate is considered. Methods for a significant reduction in the crack growth rate based on multiple preliminary indentation are substantiated. Using the developed program, we managed to solve a series of problems regarding the effect of different types of loading and fastenings on the growth rate of a fatigue crack in a plate with a through crack. The use of one-sided indentation of thin-walled objects with cracks, which are installed on the support surface, greatly simplifies the practical application of the technique for creating a residual stress field in the vicinity of the crack tip. It is shown that with multiple indentation along the crack propagation line, the fatigue crack growth rate is significantly lower than that when using a single indenter.

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