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<p>The focus of this research work was predicting the fatigue life of mechanical components used for industrial and transport systems. To understand how the phenomenon of fatigue occurs in a material, the fatigue crack growth is studied. The purpose of this work was to create a graphical user interface (GUI) under Matlab to allow researchers to conduct the parametric studies of fatigue crack propagation to predict fatigue life. In this work, three models for fatigue crack propagation were used: those of Paris, Walker and Forman in order to study the three parameters: the Paris exponent m, load ratio <italic>R</italic> and hardness <italic>K</italic><italic><sub>IC</sub></italic>, respectively. In addition, a novel model FCG was developed to study the influence of the hardening parameters (<italic>K</italic>′, <italic>n</italic>′) on fatigue crack propagation. The comparison of the simulation results with those in the literature shows good agreement.</p>
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The focus of this research work was predicting the fatigue life of mechanical components used for industrial and transport systems. To understand how the phenomenon of fatigue occurs in a material, the fatigue crack growth is studied. The purpose of this work was to create a graphical user interface (GUI) under Matlab to allow researchers to conduct the parametric studies of fatigue crack propagation to predict fatigue life. In this work, three models for fatigue crack propagation were used: those of Paris, Walker and Forman in order to study the three parameters: the Paris exponent m, load ratio R and hardness KIC, respectively. In addition, a novel model FCG was developed to study the influence of the hardening parameters (K′, n′) on fatigue crack propagation. The comparison of the simulation results with those in the literature shows good agreement.

A FCG Model and the Graphical User Interface Under Matlab for Predicting Fatigue Life: Parametric Studies

Researcher & Invited Professor, CONSTRUCT & Faculty of Engineering

Laboratory of Materials and Systems Reactive, Faculty of Technology

Fatigue of Aircraft Structures

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The focus of this research work was predicting the fatigue life of mechanical components used for industrial and transport systems. To understand how the...

A FCG Model and the Graphical User Interface Under Matlab for Predicting Fatigue Life: Parametric Studies

Published Online: Jul 28, 2022

Page range: 116 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fas-2021-0011

Keywords
Fatigue life prediction, Graphical User Interface, fatigue crack growth, cyclic hardening, Paris, Walker, Forman

© 2021 Tayeb Kebir et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A FCG Model and the Graphical User Interface Under Matlab for Predicting Fatigue Life: Parametric Studies

Published Online: Jul 28, 2022

Page range: 116 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fas-2021-0011

KeywordsFatigue life prediction, Graphical User Interface, fatigue crack growth, cyclic hardening, Paris, Walker, Forman

© 2021 Tayeb Kebir et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Fatigue life prediction, Graphical User Interface, fatigue crack growth, cyclic hardening, Paris, Walker, Forman