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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 23, Number 6, August20 2006 , pages 651-674 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2006.23.6.651 |
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Hung-Liang (Roger) Chen and Jeong-Hoon Choi
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| Abstract | ||
| The fatigue cracks initiate and propagate in the Armored Vehicle Launch Bridge (AVLB) components, especially like the splice doubler angle, splice plate, and bottom chord, due to the cyclic loading by repeated AVLB-launchings and tank-crossings. In this study, laboratory fatigue tests were conducted on six aluminum 2014-T6, four aluminum 7050-T76511, and four ASTM A36 steel compact-tension specimens to evaluate the crack growth behavior of the materials used for the components. The experimental results provide the relationship (Paris Law) between crack growth rate, da/dn, and stress intensity range, K, whose material dependent constants C and m can later be used in the life estimation of the components. Finite Element Method (FEM) was used to obtain the stress intensity factor, K, of the components with cracks. Because of the complexity of loading conditions and component geometry, several assumptions and simplifications are made in the FEM modeling. The FEM results, along with the results obtained from laboratory fatigue tests, are then utilized to estimate critical crack length and remaining life of the components | ||
| Key Words | ||
| AVLB sub-components; fatigue crack growth; stress intensity factor; finite element method; remaining fatigue-life estimation | ||
| Address | ||
| Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA | ||