To better design structures and machines, understanding of flaws and failures is essential. The body of this work has addressed numerous facets of fatigue crack propagation. The affect of crack closure, testing errors, and data scatter are a few important components of crack growth developed and investigated. It was found that the widely accepted compliance-offset technique for closure measurement may be sensitive to increases in load ratio. Opening load uncertainty was calculated to be on the order of 5%. The application of practical regression techniques and the use of DKeff were used to characterize closureree crack growth data to develop a single intrinsic da/dN curve. The best form of regression was found to be a multi-linear fit. A strip-yield model requiring the intrinsic curve was used to successfully predict crack growth at other load ratios. Uncertainties with a strong dependence on crack mouth displacement were found for da/dN, DK, and a.To better design structures and machines, understanding of flaws and failures is essential. The body of this work has addressed numerous facets of fatigue crack propagation. The affect of crack closure, testing errors, and data scatter are a few important components of crack growth developed and investigated. It was found that the widely accepted compliance-offset technique for closure measurement may be sensitive to increases in load ratio. Opening load uncertainty was calculated to be on the order of 5%. The application of practical regression techniques and the use of DKeff were used to characterize closureree crack growth data to develop a single intrinsic da/dN curve. The best form of regression was found to be a multi-linear fit. A strip-yield model requiring the intrinsic curve was used to successfully predict crack growth at other load ratios. Uncertainties with a strong dependence on crack mouth displacement were found for da/dN, deltaK, and a.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-2011 |
| Date | 12 May 2001 |
| Creators | Blandford, Robert |
| Publisher | Scholars Junction |
| Source Sets | Mississippi State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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