Abstract
A numerical and experimental study was conducted on fatigue crack growth (FCG) of metallic components to investigate the effect of redistribution of mechanical residual stresses induced by overloading in notched specimens. The compact tension (CT) specimens of an aluminum alloy were used, and mechanical residual stresses were introduced in them by applying tensile overload (OL). Then, the specimens were subjected to fatigue loading. In the calculations of finite element method (FEM), the modified cyclic J-integral was used as the crack growth parameter. Good agreement was observed between the numerical and experimental results. The FEM results demonstrated a clear redistribution of residual stresses during FCG process. It was observed that after a few cycles, the residual stress field reached a lower magnitude value confining in a small zone around the around the crack tip. Furthermore, the effects of stress ratio, load amplitude, and OL ratio (OLR) on the redistribution of residual stresses are studied in this research. It was observed that the residual stresses are considerably released during the initial cycles of fatigue loading.
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