ASSIGNMENT REPORT

FRACTURE MECHANICS CE613

By

Kunal R. Umbarkar 08010448

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI May, 2012

PROBLEM 1

ABAQUS ASSIGNMENT
1.1 Problem Description

Determine stress intensity factor K1 of rectangular plate with initial inclined boundary crack. Plate is loaded by unit pressure on both sides of model.

1.2

FE Modelling

1.2.1 Geometry and Section The general model geometry and loading conditions are shown in Fig. 1.1. The plate dimensions are 2.5 mm x 5.0 mm. With crack inclined at 300 with respect to horizontal along the longer side.

The geometry is constructed in Part module as a 2D shell model. The crack is introduced by partitioning the 2D shell model as shown in Fig. 1.1 by using face partitioning scheme. Moreover, a circular partitioning is done for sweep meshing. Mechanical Elastic material with youngs modulus as 30 x 106 and poisons ratio as 0.3 As given in the problem statement, the model is assigned with solid section of thickness 1 mm.

1.2.2 Crack Modelling In the interaction module, the crack is assigned. The partitioned edge is firstly assigned a seam. This feature enables From the special features crack is first defined by assigning crack front as the crack tip with direction of crack propagation specified by q vectors as shown in Fig. 1.2. The midside mode parameter is taken as 0.25 for single node, collapsed element side.

1.2.3 Analysis and Loading Static/General Linear analysis is carried out. NLGeom is kept Off for linear analysis. To obtain KI and KII history output for all 10 counters are requested. Both ends of the plate are tensioned with a unit pressure.

1.2.4 Meshing For FE modelling the CPS8R 8 noded biquadratic plane stress quadrilateral elements with reduced integration technique are used. Throughout the model free meshing is employed except in the centre where sweep meshing is used.

Global element size is 0.125 mm and inside the circular partitioning 10 elements with bias ratio of 1000 decreasing towards crack tip. The normal and zoomed mesh profiles are shown in Fig. 1.3.

1.3

Results and Discussion

The final deformed shape is shown in Fig 1.4 with plastic zones near the crack tip (zoomed). From the Static/General Linear analysis, the average KI is found out to be and KII is found out to be ..

Fig. 1.1: Model geometry and loading conditions

Fig. 1.2: Crack propagation

Fig. 1.3: Mesh profiles

Fig. 1.4: Deformed shape and plastic zones

PROBLEM 2

MATLAB ASSIGNMENT
2.1 Problem Description

Plot plastic zone considering (a) Von-Mises stress criteria and (b) Tresca stress criteria. Consider either steel or aluminium as material.

2.2

Stress Criterion

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no need to change matlab code for us. Paste the same code just make minor changes in report.

Material is LDSS i.e. lean duplex stainless steel.. material properties are taken as in the code

2.3

Results and Discussion

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APPENDIX

MATLAB CODE
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