Volume 45, Issue 9 pp. 2613-2629
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

A nonlinear uniaxial fatigue damage accumulation model based on the theory of material configurational forces

Yujie Chen

Yujie Chen

State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Dexin Sun

Dexin Sun

State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

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Junling Hou

Junling Hou

State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Xi'an Jiaotong University Suzhou Institute, Suzhou, China

Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang, China

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Qun Li

Corresponding Author

Qun Li

State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Correspondence

Qun Li, State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.

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First published: 29 June 2022
Citations: 1

Funding information: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 2020M673374; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China, Grant/Award Number: xjh012020014; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 12002256, 11772245; Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 2020JQ-011, 2018JC-004; Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Grant/Award Number: BK20200246; K.C. Wong Education Foundation

Abstract

To ensure the integrity and reliability of structures, it is of great importance to understand the fatigue damage mechanism of materials under different amplitude loading conditions. For this purpose, a nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation model based on material configurational forces is developed in this paper. Specially, since the material configurational force is defined on the material space point and directly associated with the evolution of material configuration, it is introduced as an internal variable to describe fatigue damage accumulation. Additionally, the corresponding relation between configurational force and stress state is presented. Meanwhile, the damage increasing among every loading cycle, that is, the damage rate, is dependent on the stress state and damage state variable. Therefore, the formulation of damage rate is proposed by a function of material configurational force and damage state variable. Further, numerical implementation of this proposed nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation model has been carried out through two notched structures to describe the fatigue damage evolution and predict the fatigue life of materials. The results indicate that the numerical results are consistent with previous experimental data.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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