Journal of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics
53, 3, pp. 665-672, Warsaw 2015
DOI: 10.15632/jtam-pl.53.3.665
and Applied Mechanics
53, 3, pp. 665-672, Warsaw 2015
DOI: 10.15632/jtam-pl.53.3.665
Numerical analysis of stress intensity factor and T-stress in pipeline of steel P264GH submitted to loading conditions
Stress singularities occur at crack tips, corners and material interfaces. The stress intensity factors and T-stresses are coefficients of structural components where the active stress singular and first regular stress terms, respectively, are denoted by William's eigen function expansion series. A finite element analysis by CASTEM 2000 have been undertaken in order to determine the evolution of the T-stress and stress intensity factor terms in mode I for an arc of pipeline specimens with an external surface crack. A stress difference method described by Moustabchir et al. (2012) are adapted and, in the following step, the volumetric method is then embedded to compute the SIFs and T-stress near the crack tip. Different crack geometries combined with different length-to-thickness ratios are examined for the T-stress and stress-intensity factor. The revisited stress difference method employed here shows to be an accurate and robust scheme for evaluating the T-stress/SIFs in an arc of the pipeline.
Keywords: T-stress, Stress Intensity Factor (SIF), Finite Element Method (FEM), Stress Difference Method (SDM), volumetric method