Efficient frequency-domain based fatigue life estimation of spot welds in vehicle components

Autor: Milan Zigo, Gerhard Kepplinger, Eray Arslan, Werner Mack
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Forschung im Ingenieurwesen. 83:921-931
ISSN: 1434-0860
0015-7899
DOI: 10.1007/s10010-019-00345-6
Popis: The estimation of the damage and fatigue life of spot welds in vehicle components with hundreds or thousands thereof within reasonable computation time is a challenge even for recent computers in automotive industry. Hence, an advanced procedure in the frequency-domain is proposed. Whereas the general frequency-domain approach is well-established, it nevertheless becomes efficient for a large number of spot welds only with a package of measures. Among others, a two-scale FE-method using a pre-processed data base for various spot weld/sheet geometries and specified basic load cases, application of the cutting-plane method, and a priori stress estimations to reduce the number of spot welds to be checked completely are suggested. By the example of a tank of a cooling medium in a vehicle it is shown that the proposed algorithm may reduce the computation time as compared to time-domain calculations substantially.
Databáze: OpenAIRE