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Exercise Crack Opening Displacement

1. The COD design curve predicts a maximum permissible crack length equal to half the critical crack length calculated with LEFM in the linear elastic regime. 2. The occurrence of plastic constraint in actual structural parts leads to more safety when using the COD design curve. 3. For a large welded steel vessel, it is required to determine the level to which residual stresses in the weld metal need to be reduced in order to comply with requirements of withstanding a crack of half length 60 mm and a CTOD value not exceeding 0.5 mm, given properties of the weld metal and applied service stress and residual stresses.

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Exercise Crack Opening Displacement

1. The COD design curve predicts a maximum permissible crack length equal to half the critical crack length calculated with LEFM in the linear elastic regime. 2. The occurrence of plastic constraint in actual structural parts leads to more safety when using the COD design curve. 3. For a large welded steel vessel, it is required to determine the level to which residual stresses in the weld metal need to be reduced in order to comply with requirements of withstanding a crack of half length 60 mm and a CTOD value not exceeding 0.5 mm, given properties of the weld metal and applied service stress and residual stresses.

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Exercise Crack Opening Displacement

1.

Show that in the linear elastic regime the COD design curve predicts a maximum
permissible crack length (amax) equal to half the critical crack length calculated with
LEFM.

2. Show that the occurrence of plastic constraint in actual structural parts leads to more
safety when using the COD design curve.
3. For a large welded steel vessel the following data are available: service stress s = 200
N/mm2, yield strength weld metal sys = 450 N/mm2 Youngs modulus weld metal E =
205 000 N/mm2. Due to shrinkage after the welding process, residual stresses develop in
the weld seam which can be as high as the yield strength of the weld metal. By means of
a heat treatment these stresses can be reduced. It is required that the vessel can withstand
a crack in the weld metal with half crack size a = 60 mm. Furthermore the CTOD value
in this case may not exceed 0.5 mm. To what level should the residual stresses be reduced
to comply with these requirements?
4. A cylindrical pressure vessel of diameter 2 m and wall-thickness 20 mm is subjected to a
pressure of 1 MPa. The material of the vessel is a low carbon steel with modulus of
elasticity 210 GPa and yield stress 400 MPa. The critical crack opening displacement of a
specimen taken from the vessel is 5, = 0.1 mm. Determine the maximum crack length the
vessel can withstand without failure using the crack opening displacement design
method. Assume that there are residual stresses of magnitude equal to the yield stress of
the material of the vessel.
5. A compact tension specimen with W = 14 cm, B = 7 cm and a = 7 cm is used to
determine the critical crack opening displacement t, of a steel plate according to the
British Standard BS 5762. From the load versus crack mouth displacement (P - V) record
of the test it is obtained that the maximum load is Pu = 50 kN and the plastic component
of the crack mouth displacement is Vp, = 1.5 mm. Determine t, when E = 210 GPa, v =
0.3 and YS = 500 MPa.

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