Fatigue crack initiation and growth behavior within varying notch geometries in the low-cycle fatigue regime for FV566 turbine blade material
Fatigue crack initiation and growth behavior within varying notch geometries in the low-cycle fatigue regime for FV566 turbine blade material
Plain bend bars made from FV566 martensitic stainless steel were extracted from the root of ex-service power plant turbine blades and several industry-relevant notch geometries were introduced. Some of the samples were shot peened. The notched bend bars were loaded plastically in the low-cycle fatigue regime and finite element (FE) modeling carried out to investigate the effects of changing notch geometry, combined with shot peening, on fatigue behaviors such as crack initiation, short crack growth, and coalescence. Shot peening damaged the notch surface, accelerating initiation behaviors, but had a lifetime-extending effect by retarding short crack growth in all tested notch geometries. At a total strain range higher than 1.2%, the lifetime extension benefit from shot peening was diminished due to compressive residual stress relaxation in the notch stress field. Notch geometry (and the associated varying constraint levels and stress/strain gradients) was found to have no notable difference on fatigue life when tested at identical notch-root strain ranges.
constant amplitude, low cycle fatigue, notch field, notches, short crack growth, stainless steel
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Cunningham, Benjamin M.D.
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Reed, Philippa A.S.
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Hamilton, Andrew R.
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Cunningham, Benjamin M.D., Leering, Mitchell, Fan, Yuhui, You, Chao, Morris, Andrew, Reed, Philippa A.S., Hamilton, Andrew R. and Fitzpatrick, Michael E.
(2023)
Fatigue crack initiation and growth behavior within varying notch geometries in the low-cycle fatigue regime for FV566 turbine blade material.
Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 46 (8), .
(doi:10.1111/ffe.14036).
Abstract
Plain bend bars made from FV566 martensitic stainless steel were extracted from the root of ex-service power plant turbine blades and several industry-relevant notch geometries were introduced. Some of the samples were shot peened. The notched bend bars were loaded plastically in the low-cycle fatigue regime and finite element (FE) modeling carried out to investigate the effects of changing notch geometry, combined with shot peening, on fatigue behaviors such as crack initiation, short crack growth, and coalescence. Shot peening damaged the notch surface, accelerating initiation behaviors, but had a lifetime-extending effect by retarding short crack growth in all tested notch geometries. At a total strain range higher than 1.2%, the lifetime extension benefit from shot peening was diminished due to compressive residual stress relaxation in the notch stress field. Notch geometry (and the associated varying constraint levels and stress/strain gradients) was found to have no notable difference on fatigue life when tested at identical notch-root strain ranges.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 April 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 May 2023
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This study is financially supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK (Grant EP/N509747/1). The authors would like to acknowledge the funding and support of the University of Southampton. We would also like to thank EDF energy for providing ex-service blade material and industrial co-funding for this project. C. You would like to acknowledge the funding and support from Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant BK20210302). For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. MEF wishes to acknowledge the support of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charitable foundation helping protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement, and the application of research.
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constant amplitude, low cycle fatigue, notch field, notches, short crack growth, stainless steel
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