Assessing the Fatigue Life of Plastics
Conventional dimensioning and local concept via FEM
In this training, you will learn how to assess and apply various concepts for fatigue and creep fracture loads on plastic components. This training is offered as a 2-day course.
Duration
2 days
Prerequisites
None
Software used
Ansys Mechanical
- Understand the world of plastics and their damage mechanisms
- Learn about the influencing factors on fatigue behavior
- Get an overview of design concepts
- Conventional dimensioning and local concept via FEM
Description
Nowadays, plastics are replacing other materials such as ceramics or metals in many areas, but what are the long-term aging characteristics of plastic components? The life cycle of plastics depends on a variety of influencing factors such as heat, mechanical stress, and media, and is also greatly affected by the operating and environmental conditions of the plastic product.
In this training, you will learn how to assess and apply various concepts for fatigue and creep fracture loads on plastic components. You will learn the key factors that affect the service life of short fiber-reinforced and unreinforced plastics. You will understand service life assessment concepts under fatigue and creep fracture stress. You will become familiar with the application of local stress concepts to plastic components under fatigue and creep fracture stress.
This training addresses computational engineers, reliability design and product testing engineers, designers and research engineers, and anyone who wants to know more about the service life of plastics.
Detailed agenda for this 2-day training
Day 1
01 Introduction to the world of plastics
- Properties of plastics
- Reliability design
- Fatigue of plastics (reinforced, not reinforced)
02 Influencing factors on fatigue behavior
- Notches
- Temperature
- Load ratio/mean stress
- Fiber orientation, multi-axiality
- Flow lines
03 Damage mechanisms and overview of dimensioning concepts
- Overview
- Experimental investigation methods
- Typical damage mechanisms
- Overview of design concepts
04 Conventional dimensioning
- Strain based concept
- Derivation of allowable strain/stresses
- Derivation of material parameters for structural analysis
- Stress-based concepts
- Example: tubular component subjected to internal pressure loads
- Application example conventional dimensioning: calculation of allowable strain for load cases: Bursting pressure, static long-term internal pressure, pulsating internal pressure
Day 2
05 Local stress concepts – isotropic
- Supporting effect
- Temperature influence
- Mean stress sensitivity
- Failure criteria
- Sample local stress concept application: creating the calibration curve for the support effect using the sample component for pulsating internal pressure
06 Variable loads
- Load collectives
- Damage accumulation rules
- Cycle counting method
- Critical damage summary
- Dealing with scatter
- Application example load spectrum: Calculation of the amount of damage on the example component
07 Local stress concepts – anisotropic
- Local fiber orientation
- Simulation chain for reinforced plastics
- Sample anisotropy application: creating the calibration curve for considering the anisotropy on the fatigue strength and application at the sample component
08 Special cases
- Creep rupture load
- Thermomechanical fatigue
- Vibration load
- Crack formation and crack growth
- Sources for material properties
Your Trainers
Dr. Matthias De Monte
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