Thermomechanical fatigue design of aluminium components

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Abstract

This paper presents a global approach of thermomechanical design in the automotive industry. The three steps of the method are the following: the loading definition, the modelling of the constitutive law, a failure criterion. Cracked area and lifetime prediction are described in the case of aluminium alloy cylinder heads submitted to transient thermal loadings. The main hypothesis and modelling choices are presented and results are illustrated by a series of computations on real 3D structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)309-318
Number of pages10
JournalEuropean Structural Integrity Society
Volume29
Issue numberC
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2002
Externally publishedYes

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