Recently, attempts have been underway to simulate RCF (rolling contact fatigue) crack growth in the railhead, including also the effect of wear on maintaining the integrity of the rail and saving cost. At this juncture, it is essential to confirm whether the past analyses are adequate and what extent of differences exists when the different mechanisms or numerical procedures are applied to the same conditions in the RCF problem. Therefore, boundary-element analyses of SIF (stress intensity factor) at the inclined surface crack tip under RCF conditions have been performed. Comparisons were made between SIFs calculated by the present analyses and those done by the numerical procedures of other researchers in the RCF problem. From this study, it was recognised that a special program should be developed to analyse the SIFs when the fluid pressure is taken into account. It was also found out that, for the analyses of SIFs, the iteration procedure with convergence calculation to specify the extent and location of locked, slipped, and separated regions on the crack faces should be used.


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    Title :

    Some comments on stress intensity factor calculation using different mechanisms and procedures for rolling contact fatigue cracks


    Contributors:
    Akama, M. (author) / Nagashima, T. (author)


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    13 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 16 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English