Residual stress and fatigue crack propagation behavior of the Grade A mild steel cut by plasma cutting technique for the ship structural material are evaluated by experiments and finite element analysis (FEA). After applied the loads of 0%, 50%, 80% y...
Residual stress and fatigue crack propagation behavior of the Grade A mild steel cut by plasma cutting technique for the ship structural material are evaluated by experiments and finite element analysis (FEA). After applied the loads of 0%, 50%, 80% yield strength on each plasma cutting specimen, residual stresses were gauged through the strain changes. Then, these experimental results are compared with the FEA results. Fatigue crack propagation behavior was estimated through the fatigue test performed under R=-1 and 5Hz sine wave repeated load. The constants of paris equation are found from crack growth ratio and changes of stress intensity factor.