Abstract

Studying the in situ measurement and evolution of the strain field at the crack tip during fatigue crack growth (FCG) is of great significance for understanding the fracture characteristics of materials and predicting fatigue life. Herein, a new method is proposed for the in-situ measurement of the strain field at the fatigue crack tip based on microscopic digital image correlation (DIC). The method proposed solves the problem of the existing in situ strain field measurement method being unable to dynamically track the crack tip and take the crack tip image due to the limitation of the field of view of the microscopic camera. A macroscopic camera is used to capture the global crack images on one side of the compact tension (CT) specimen. Meanwhile, a microscopic camera is used to track and capture the crack propagation speckle image on the other side of the CT specimen. The proposed method was verified by experiments with Quenching and Partitioning 980 (Q&P980) steel, and the results showed that the method has high accuracy, with the average measurement error being less than 5% and the maximum error being less than 10%. A butterfly shape of the measured strain field and the strain concentration near the crack tip were observed. The success of this method will help to obtain better insight into and understanding of the fracture behavior of metal materials as well as precise prediction of the fatigue life of metal materials.

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