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Chapter 4<br />

<strong>Fatigue</strong> Crack Growth Simulation in a<br />

Bimaterial Interface<br />

4.1 Background<br />

Interface fatigue crack growth is one <strong>of</strong> the most critical damages that layered structures, such as<br />

monolithic fibre reinforced or s<strong>and</strong>wich composites, may experience. Design against fatigue<br />

failure <strong>of</strong> these types <strong>of</strong> structures is associated with many challenges due to the complexity <strong>of</strong><br />

the interface fracture problem. To assess the lifetime <strong>and</strong> behaviour <strong>of</strong> layered structures exposed<br />

to cyclic loading, experiments are typically conducted on intact specimens <strong>and</strong> on specimens<br />

with a pre-existing (known) crack. This requires special testing facilities <strong>and</strong> is usually very<br />

costly <strong>and</strong> time-consuming. Due to the difficulties <strong>and</strong> expenses associated with conducting<br />

fatigue experiments, considerable efforts have been made in recent years to simulate fatigue<br />

crack growth by applying numerical methods. Maziere <strong>and</strong> Fedelich (2010) simulated 2D fatigue<br />

crack propagation using the finite element method <strong>and</strong> implementation <strong>of</strong> the strip-yield model.<br />

Their model assumes that, at each cycle, the crack growth results from the variation <strong>of</strong> the crack<br />

tip opening displacement (CTOD). They used cohesive elements with linear-elastic, perfectlyplastic<br />

behaviour to simulate crack growth. Kiyak et al. (2008) simulated fatigue crack growth<br />

under low cycle fatigue at a high temperature in a single crystal superalloy. To simulate the crack<br />

growth, they implemented a node release technique <strong>and</strong> released the nodes in each cycle<br />

according to an experimentally measured crack growth rate. The simulation results were<br />

compared with results from experiments on the single edge notch specimens <strong>of</strong> the Ni-based<br />

single crystal superalloy PWA1483 at 950C on the basis <strong>of</strong> computed crack tip opening<br />

displacement (CTOD). Shi <strong>and</strong> Zhang (2009) simulated the interfacial crack growth <strong>of</strong> fibre<br />

reinforced composites under tension–tension cyclic loading using the finite element method. In<br />

their model, the energy release rate is calculated <strong>and</strong> applied to Paris’ law in order to calculate<br />

the crack growth rate. Ramanujam et al. (2008) studied the fatigue growth <strong>of</strong> fibre reinforced<br />

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