Abstract
This study attempts to develop a numerical method to predict the real stress state in steel butt welds subjected to cyclic mechanical loading. 3-D FE thermal simulation of a butt welding is first performed to obtain the residual stresses. Then, 3-D elastic–plastic FE model which incorporates the cyclic plasticity constitutive equation based on the Chaboche nonlinear kinematic hardening and the isotropic hardening rule is developed to evaluate redistribution of the residual stresses under cyclic external loading. The analytical results have shown that the FE analysis method devised here can effectively predict the cyclic relaxation of the residual stresses.
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