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Numerical damage and life prediction of automotive casting tooling due to low-cycle thermal fatigue*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2011

D. Toumbas  and
N. Dufaure
D. Toumbas
Affiliation:
Toumbas Engineering, 91 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, 75008 Paris, France. e-mail: toumbas@toumbas-engineering.com
N. Dufaure
Affiliation:
PSA – Peugeot Citroen, 18 rue des Fauvelles, 92250 La Garenne Colombes, France. e-mail: dufaure.nicolas@mpsa.com
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Abstract

The economic challenge for PSA regarding the maintenance of their mould foundry park is to predict and improve its lifespan in preventing any risk of initiation and propagation of cracks in thermal fatigue. A method for assessing the number of cycles of casting tooling thermal fatigue used by PSA was developed using the criterion of Fatemi-Socie [A. Fatemi, D. Socie, Fatigue Fract. Engng. Mater. Struct. 11 (1988) 149-165, D.F. Socie, multiaxial fatigue damage models, ASME 109 (1987) 293-298], associated with a shear failure mode, which predicts the thermal fatigue damage by assessing stress and strain tensors on different facets around any material point.

Keywords

Fatiguedamagethermal fatiguecritical facetstoolingmoldingnumber of cyclesfailure modesheardeformation tensorsmultiple cracksfatigue life predictionfinite elementsFatigueendommagementfatigue thermiqueplan critiqueoutillagefonderienombre de cyclesmode de rupturecisaillementdurée de vietenseursdéformationsfissurationéléments-finis
Type
Research Article
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Metallurgical Research & Technology , Volume 108 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 109 - 112
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2011

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