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3D Fracture Mechanics with ADINA
The finite element analysis of components in fracture, including the possible behavior of cracks,
can be of utmost importance. Specifically, power plants and airplanes need to be continuously
checked for cracks and whether cracks may grow. In the first instance, linear elastic fracture
mechanics analyses are peformed in which the J-integral is calculated
ADINA is used effectively for such analyses. Here we feature typical analysis steps to calculate
the J-integral for a 3D crack with ADINA.
For 3D fracture mechanics calculations, it is customary to use specialized meshes that are highly
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refined around the crack front line. The ADINA User Interface, AUI, includes special features for
creating these meshes. These features are based on the ADINA-M geometry modelers, either
Parasolid based or Open Cascade based
To demonstrate the features, we describe the modeling of a typical surface crack in 3D analysis.
Symmetry is not used, so there is geometry on both sides of the crack. Figure 1 shows a
schematic of this typical crack.
Crack front line
Cracked area
Figure 1 Schematic of typical crack considered
Geometry modeling
The uncracked geometry is modeled using the usual ADINA-M modeling features.
The crack front is represented by a geometry edge. This edge is conveniently defined using a
local coordinate system oriented with respect to the crack.
The geometry immediately adjacent to the crack front is modeled using two bodies, one body
on either side of the crack, as shown in Figure 2. These bodies are called crack front bodies.
They are topologically half-cylinders, with one edge of each body corresponding to the crack
front, and one face of each body corresponding to the cracked area adjacent to the crack front.
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Face of crack front
body corresponding
to cracked area
Edge of orack front
body comesponding
to crack front
Figure 2 Crack front bodies (shown in exploded view)
The geometry surrounding the crack front bodies is modeled using two additional bodies, one
body on either side of the crack, see Figure 3. These bodies are called crack sleeve bodies.
Notice that the crack sleeve bodies are large enough to include all of the cracked area not
already included in the crack front bodies. Thus the entire crack is surrounded by the crack front
bodies and the crack sleeve bodies.
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Face of crack sleeve
body corresponding,
to cracked area
igure 3 Crack sleeve and crack front bodies (shown in exploded view)
In order to include the crack in the model, the crack front bodies and the crack sleeve bodies
are subtracted from uncracked geometry. Face-links are used to create compatible meshes
between all of the bodies.
Meshing
The crack front bodies are meshed with a special mapped meshing command. This command
creates a mapped mesh with wedge elements adjacent to the crack front line and elements that
fan out radially from the wedge elements. This command automatically does not use nodal
coincidence checking on the faces corresponding to the cracked area. There is also an option to
move the mid-side nodes of higher-order elements to the quarter-points (this option is applied
only to the wedge elements adjacent to the crack front line). The mapped meshes considered
are shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4 Mapped meshes used for crack front bodies (exploded view)
The crack sleeve bodies are meshed using a special free-form meshing command, see Figure 5.
This free-form meshing command automatically does not use nodal coincidence checking on the
faces corresponding to the cracked area.
The remaining bodies are meshed as usual using free-form meshing.
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Figure 5 Meshes used for bodies (exploded view)
Virtual shifts
The virtual shifts required for fracture mechanics calculations are automatically generated
according to the following table:
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\Virtual shift |Corner node number |Ring
number _|on crack front number
1 ‘ist corner node 0
2 land corner node 0
IN Mth corner node 0
IN+1 ‘ist corner node 1
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[2x NV |Ath corner node iu
Inring x Nth comer node ne -
Here Vis the number of corner nodes on the crack front and nring is the number of rings in the
mapped mesh surrounding the crack front.
Ring 0 represents the motion of only the corner node at the crack front. Ring 1 represents the
motion of the same node, and also the motion of the first ring of elements surrounding that
node. This process is repeated for higher ring numbers. The virtual shifts considered are shown
in Figure 6.
‘Typical virtual shitt
Virtual shift, ing 0 Virtual shift, ring 1
Figure 6 Virtual shifts illustrated
Due to the path independence of the J-integral, the J-integral values for virtual shifts, /+ Mj +
2x N.... should be identical. Thus path-independence can be checked using the virtual shifts.
Example
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The movie above shows the meshing used and stresses due to pressure in a pressure vessel in
which a surface crack is present.
The results for the J-integral are shown in Figure 7,
D
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= Ring 4
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Comer node station number
Figure 7 Plots of the J-integral for rings 0, 1 and 2
For the first and last corner nodes on the crack front, the virtual shifts for rings 1, 2, ... are invalid
because these virtual shifts are on the boundary of the model, the model boundary is curved
and the crack front is not normal to the boundary. Hence these virtual shifts perturb the
geometric boundary.
For the other corner nodes on the crack front, as we should have, the path-independence of the
J-integral is observed.
The modeling features of the ADINA User Interface and calculations performed using ADINA are
clearly of much value in practical fracture mechanics solutions.
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