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Fatigue crack growth behavior and mechanism of aluminum alloy welded joints under overloads
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Lianyong XU1, 2, 3, Lei ZHAO1, 2, 3, Jinchao HUANG1, 2, 3, Quanwei SUN4, Wenzhou LIANG5
Journal of Mechanical Strength | 2025, 47(9) : 62 - 71
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Journal of Mechanical Strength | 2025, 47(9): 62-71
Fatigue crack growth behavior and mechanism of aluminum alloy welded joints under overloads
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Lianyong XU1, 2, 3, Lei ZHAO1, 2, 3, Jinchao HUANG1, 2, 3, Quanwei SUN4, Wenzhou LIANG5
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  • 1.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2.State Key Laboratory of High Performance Roll Materials and Composite Forming, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 3.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Joining Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 4.Nantong CIMC Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., Nantong 226000, China
  • 5.CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing 100020, China
Published: 2025-09-15 doi: 10.16579/j.issn.1001.9669.2025.09.005
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Different parts of high-speed train bogies are usually designed with aluminum alloy materials of varying strengths, and welding is adopted to connect these different parts. When high-speed trains operate under complex road conditions, the bogies will be subjected to tensile overload, which will produce a coupled superposition effect with the strength difference of welded joints. Therefore, tensile overload tests were carried out on the welded structural components of bogies to study the fatigue crack growth behavior and intrinsic mechanism of aluminum alloy welded joints with different strengths under the action of tensile overload. The compliance method was used to measure the crack growth rate under tensile overload;the digital image correlation (DIC) technology was applied to analyze the change in the size of the plastic zone at the crack tip before and after the application of tensile overload; the scanning electron microscope (SEM) was employed to observe the fracture morphology characteristics of different aluminum alloys in the region affected by tensile overload. The crack growth behavior and intrinsic mechanism under tensile overload were explained based on the change in the size of the plastic zone at the crack tip and the corresponding fracture morphology characteristics. The results show that a single tensile overload can reduce the fatigue crack growth rate and extend the fatigue life. Further analysis indicates that during the tensile overload process, the plastic zone at the crack tip expands and the crack tip is blunted, which together lead to the reduction of the fatigue crack growth rate. The lower the material strength, the more severe the deformation at the crack tip and the more obvious the hysteresis effect under the same tensile overload. The test results of welded joints under tensile overload are consistent with those of the base metal, suggesting that the strength of the hysteresis effect depends only on the inherent strength of the material itself.

Tensile overload  /  Mechanical strength  /  Fatigue crack growth rate  /  Crack tip  /  Welded joint
Lianyong XU, Lei ZHAO, Jinchao HUANG, Quanwei SUN, Wenzhou LIANG. Fatigue crack growth behavior and mechanism of aluminum alloy welded joints under overloads[J]. Journal of Mechanical Strength, 2025 , 47 (9) : 62 -71 . DOI: 10.16579/j.issn.1001.9669.2025.09.005
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(52025052)
Year 2025 volume 47 Issue 9
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doi: 10.16579/j.issn.1001.9669.2025.09.005
  • Receive Date:2025-07-05
  • Online Date:2026-03-20
  • Published:2025-09-15
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  • Received:2025-07-05
  • Revised:2025-07-21
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(52025052)
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    1.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
    2.State Key Laboratory of High Performance Roll Materials and Composite Forming, Tianjin 300350, China
    3.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Joining Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
    4.Nantong CIMC Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., Nantong 226000, China
    5.CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing 100020, China

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