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Article history: Threaded components are structural elements that play an important role in the integrity of an efficient
Received 18 March 2010 engineering design. The assessment of their fatigue and fracture behaviors under real load conditions
Received in revised form 13 July 2010 becomes many times extremely complex. This is because of the experimental difficulties involved in
Accepted 3 August 2010
the laboratory simulation of the ‘‘nut–bolt” interaction. As a consequence, crack initiation and crack
Available online 6 August 2010
growth data are scant.
This paper proposes an experimental method that overcomes these difficulties allowing an analysis of
Keywords:
the behavior of the coupling under a state of tensile cyclic loading.
Fatigue failure
Fatigue crack growth
The method enables to study the stages of initiation and crack growth. In the first, the crack nucleation
Threaded connection period over different test conditions can be determined. In the second, the crack size as a function of the
Stress intensity multiplication factor thread stiffness is estimated. Moreover, knowing the Paris’s constants C and m for the tested material, the
dimensionless stress intensity factor Y(a/d) acting in the assembly was also estimated. Tests were con-
ducted on M12 1.75 threaded rods, with a load ratio R = 0 and the obtained results demonstrated
the suitability of the method.
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Nut Nuts
Fatigue test
tightening
+P
Load on the
Specimen
threaded
(threaded rod) rod
Cylinder t
Load by the
machine
-P
Nut Load on the
cylinder
Using marks generated on the fracture surface within a certain iod under different test conditions can be determined. In the sec-
number of cycles allows the approximate determination of Y for a ond, the crack size as a function of the applied load cycles ‘‘a = f
given load and various a values. The marks, that require careful (N)” is obtained. Moreover, an experimental estimation of the mul-
control of test parameters, can be generated by modifying the tiplication factor Y(a/d) values, even for crack sizes as small as a/
amplitude of the applied fatigue cycle (i.e. keeping constant the d = 0.005, have been obtained.
maximum load and increasing the minimum load) [13]. The length
between the generated marks must be measured by any appropri- 2. Materials and methods
ate technique, which generally is scanning electron microscopy.
It should be mentioned that although the James–Anderson 2.1. The experimental device
technique is widely used when making empirical estimations
[14], it is an uphill task from the experimental point of view. In The experimental design was aimed to assess the fatigue perfor-
particular, for very small crack sizes such as a/d < 0.1 the technique mance of threaded components subjected to uniaxial tensile loads,
is practically inapplicable [15]. where the maximum tensile load is imposed by tightening the
An experimental method to study the behavior of bolt–nut nuts. In order to do this, a device consisting of a pair of nuts, a
threaded connections under a state of cyclic tensile loading and cylinder and a thread rod as the specimen was used (see Fig. 1
that overcomes the difficulties discussed in the preceding para- and Table 1 for constructive details). The maximum fatigue load
graphs is proposed in this paper. The experimental procedure em- (PmF) in the specimen is set by tightening the nuts. This action also
ploys a device which has already proven its suitability for testing produces a compression load in the cylinder. Then, the fatigue load
threaded joints [16]. Such device enables to study both the stages cycle on the specimen is imposed by placing the device between
of initiation and crack growth. In the first, the crack nucleation per- the compression plates of the fatigue testing machine and applying
an adequate compressive load cycle of constant amplitude. Fig. 1
shows the particular case for R = 0, which was the load ratio
Table 1
employed for all the tests in this work. The load path applied by
Constructive characteristics of the components employed in the devices.
the machine is indicated in doted line, while the loads on the spec-
Component Internal External Length Material imen and the cylinder are in full lines. This load ratio, R = 0, is only
diameter dimension
a particular case, and other ratios can be easily achieved by tight-
(mm) (mm)
ening the nuts to the maximum desire load and setting a proper
Cylinder 13 25.4 35 Aluminum
load in the fatigue machine. Fig. 2 shows pictures of the device
Upper nut M12 1.75 25 30 Steel (AISI 1045)
Lower nut M12 1.75 25 30 Steel (AISI 1045) before assembling (left) and mounted between the compression
plates of the testing machine (right). Note that the strain in the
Specimen
(threaded rod)
Nut
Cylinder
Nut
Fig. 2. Experimental device before assembling (left), and mounted between the compression plates of the testing machine (right).
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Table 2 where DlTR and DlC are the changes in length, and kTR and kC are the
Properties of the threaded rods employed to build the specimens. stiffness of the threaded rod and the cylinder respectively. Operat-
Threaded rod Pitch Internal External rYS rR HRB ing, the load experienced by the rod can be expressed as:
(threads/ diameter diameter (MPa) (MPa)
mm) (mm) (mm) kC
DlTR ¼ DlC ; ð8Þ
M12 1.75 1.75 9.88 12 595 601 91
K TR
where DlC is given by:
0
DlC ¼ eC lC ; ð9Þ
cylinder is measured by means of a couple of strain gages, which
were bonded on opposite sides of the cylinder in order to verify and the rigidity of each component can be well approximated by
the uniform load around the circumference of the cylinder and k = A*E/l0, where A is the cross section, E is the Young modulus
threaded rod. In this way, the maximum difference between the and l0 is the original length.
strain readings was limited up to 5% of the average strain.
The characteristics of the thread rods employed to build the 2.3. Fatigue load setting
specimens are summarized in Table 2.
Once the maximum load of the fatigue test PmF (i.e. the load in
2.2. Maximum load setting by tightening the nuts the threaded rod obtained by tightening the nuts, PTR = PmF) was
Testing machine
Threaded rod
ΔPTR +P Cylinder
x1 ΔPM
t +x
ΔlTR ΔlC ΔlC ΔlTR
ΔPC
PTR PTR
PC PC t -P t
Fig. 3. Spring model employed to analyze the loads related to the nut tightening. Fig. 5. Schematic representation of Eqs. (10), (11) and (13).
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Cycles
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
0 1x10 2x10 3x10 4x10 5x10 6x10 7x10 8x10
0
-1300
-1400
beginning of
-1500
crack growth
ε [μs]
-1600
Specimen
-1700 failure
-1800
-1900 Stage I Stage II
Fig. 6. Record of the cylinder mean strain covering the whole test until failure.
set, the load cycle applied by the machine has to be set in order to subtracting the nucleation period from total cycles. Table 3 shows
attain the desired load amplitude over the specimen. The spring the estimation of both stages obtained for three load conditions,
model of Fig. 4 allows to calculate the required load values. employing five specimens at each level. All test were carried out
When compressive load PM is applied by the machine, the loads up to the failure, where the final crack size is almost as the rod
on the threaded rod and the cylinder can be written as: diameter.
The estimation of the amount of crack growth is also based on
PTR ¼ kTR ðDlTR x1 Þ; ð10Þ
the measurement of the cylinder’s strain, although some extra cal-
culation is required. The springs model shown in Fig. 7 is helpful in
PC ¼ kC ðDlC þ x1 Þ; ð11Þ
order to facilitate the analysis of the system.
where x1 is the length reduction of the system due to the applied Performing a force balance similar to the one used in the spring
load. Performing a force balance in the spring model of Fig. 4, model of Fig. 4, the same result as Eq. (12) may be written,
results: although this time, as the crack grows the acting loads in the
threaded rod and in the cylinder are influenced by the relaxation
PM þ PTR PC ¼ 0: ð12Þ
Dx that experiences the system:
Introducing Eq. (10) and Eq. (11) in Eq. (12):
a
PM þ kTR ðDlTR DxÞ kC ðDlC þ DxÞ ¼ 0; ð15Þ
PM ¼ ðkC DlC kTR DlTR Þ þ x1 ðkC þ kTR Þ: ð13Þ
a
If a load ratio R = 0 is going to be applied to the specimen (as it where Dx = x1 x2 and kTR represents the stiffness of the cracked
was the case in this work), the minimum load in the threaded rod threaded rod, which is related to the crack size a.
during the test should be zero. Eq. (10) shows that this occurs for Eq. (14), is represented in Fig. 8 for a better understanding.
x1 = DlTR, that is, the compressive force imposed by the machine Fig. 8a shows the change in the system from the initial condition
should compensate the deformation generated in the threaded without crack in the rod (full line) to one with an arbitrary crack
rod during the nuts adjustment. Thus the maximum load that length (dotted line). The loads imposed when tightening the nuts
the machine should perform is given by:
PM ¼ kC ðDlTR þ DlC Þ: ð14Þ Table 3
Results of the nucleation period evaluation.
Eqs. (10), (11) and (13) are represented in Fig. 5 for a better under-
standing, where the load cycles of each component are also Specimen PmF (kN) R Cycles stage I Cycles stage II Total cycles
depicted. 1 29.8 0 4.04E + 05 1.42E + 05 5.47E + 05
2 29.8 0 5.65E + 05 7.22E + 04 6.37E + 05
3 29.8 0 5.36E + 05 7.87E + 04 6.14E + 05
3. Results 4 29.8 0 4.23E + 05 1.16E + 05 5.42E + 05
5 29.8 0 5.11E + 05 1.03E + 05 6.15E + 05
3.1. Estimation of the crack initiation time and crack growth analysis Average 4.88E + 05 1.02E + 05 5.91E + 05
Std. Dev. 7.06E + 04 2.86E + 04 4.36E + 04
Once the required parameters were set and the test is running, Var. Coef. 0.145 0.279 0.074
if the involved loads are high enough, after certain amount of cy-
6 32 0 1.75E + 05 6.46E + 04 2.39E + 05
cles a crack will begin to grow in the first engaged tooth between
7 32 0 2.21E + 05 9.68E + 04 3.18E + 05
the rod and one of the two nuts (i.e., the highest stressed area [17]) 8 32 0 1.84E + 05 7.17E + 04 2.56E + 05
This growth leads to a loss of stiffness in the threaded rod, gener- 9 32 0 1.27E + 05 6.06E + 04 1.87E + 05
ating a relaxation of the nuts–rod–cylinder system denoted by a 10 32 0 1.84E + 05 8.35E + 04 2.67E + 05
decrement in the mean strain measured on the cylinder, as Fig. 6 Average 1.78E + 05 7.54E + 04 2.53E + 05
shows. Std. Dev. 3.39E + 04 1.48E + 04 4.73E + 04
Var. Coef. 0.190 0.196 0.187
Two stages can be clearly distinguished: stage I corresponds to
the crack nucleation period, where no change in cylinder’s mean 11 34.5 0 2.11E + 05 8.96E + 04 3.01E + 05
deformation is observed; and stage II corresponds to the crack 12 34.5 0 1.36E + 05 6.85E + 04 2.05E + 05
growth period, where the mean strain decreases as the crack 13 34.5 0 1.09E + 05 6.14E + 04 1.70E + 05
grows. 14 34.5 0 1.52E + 05 8.29E + 04 2.35E + 05
15 34.5 0 1.66E + 05 6.93E + 04 2.35E + 05
The estimation of the nucleation period is very straightforward
and only requires to quantify the number of cycles of stage I. A 0.2% Average 1.55E + 05 7.44E + 04 2.29E + 05
Std. Dev. 3.81E + 04 1.15E + 04 4.83E + 04
reduction in the measured mean strain was taken as cutoff criteria
Var. Coef. 0.246 0.155 0.210
in this paper. Then, the crack growth period is easily obtained by
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Testing machine
(a) Threaded rod
(b)
Cylinder
+P +P
PTR PTR
P’TR
x2 x1 x2 x1
-x +x -x +x
P’C
PC PC
-P -P
Nuts
tigh-
tening
-ε
400
k TR [kN/mm]
300
200
a
100
0
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
0 1x10 2x10 3x10 4x10 5x10 6x10 7x10 8x10
Cycles
Fig. 10. Estimation of the threaded rod stiffness variation, from the strain measured on the cylinder.
1.0 (a)
Experimental data
0.9
Polynomial fit
0.8 Finite element analysis
0.7
0.6
0.5
a/d
0.4
0.3
2
Y =1.00047-0.01478 X+2.31895E-4 X
0.2 3 4 5
-1.99814E-6 X +9.91615E-9 X -2.8451E-11 X
0.1 6
+4.37295E-14 X -2.78152E-17 X
7
0.0
0 100 200 300 400 500
kTR(a/d) [kN/mm]
Fig. 11. (a) Experimental relationship between kTR and a. (b) Crack length a considered for the analysis.
1
da m
ðdn Þ pared in Fig. 15 with several solutions found by other authors
Yða=dÞ ¼ 1 pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi : ð18Þ [9,14,20,21] using the finite element method.
C ðDr p aÞ
m
Estimated crack growth On the other hand, the Kitagawa and Takahashi approach was
Actual final crack size employed to analyze the limit between short and long crack behav-
1.0 ior, [22]. Considering again data obtained from Ref. [23] for the
tested material, the critical length resulted l0 = 142 lm, as is shown
0.9 in Fig. 16. For the employed threaded rod size M12 1.75, this crit-
0.8 ical length gives a ratio a/d = 0.014.
0.7
3.3.2. Limit for large a/d ratio
0.6 For a crack length too long, the condition ‘‘remaining ligament”
>0.02 rp could be violated. Eq. (19) verifies this relation for a/d < 0.6
a/d
0.5
considering plain strain state for the tested conditions. The esti-
0.4 mated lower and upper limits are shown in Fig. 17.
0.3 2
n K
da> : ð20Þ
0.2 0:02 rY
0.1
0.0 4. Discussion
5 5 5 5 5
2x10 3x10 4x10 5x10 6x10
Cycles The simplicity of the experimental design allows to perform a
Fig. 13. Estimated crack growth in several specimens.
large number of tests in a reliable way and at very low cost per test.
Besides, the method enables to study the nut-load effect, which is
rarely contemplated in other experimental studies or numerical
2
n K analysis.
a> ; ð19Þ Both stages, crack initiation as well as crack growth can be
0:02 rY
clearly differentiated and analyzed. The ability of the method to
where n = 1/(2p) for plane stress and n = 1/(6p) for plane strain. K accurately identify the crack growth initiation must be highlighted.
was adopted in this work as the stress intensity threshold, A reduction of 0.2% in the cylinder mean strain was taken in this
DKth = 4.2 MPa(m)0.5 for the employed material [23]. Results work as an arbitrary cutoff to establish the beginning of crack
showed that, for the employed threaded rod size M12 1.75, the growth. Deeper studies can be performed to improve this point.
small scale yielding condition is achieved for a/d > 0.04 (plane stress It was possible to relate the measured strain with the crack
state) or a/d > 0.013 (plane strain state). The actual situation in the length by means of analyzing the stiffness variation of the system.
rod is between plane stress and plane strain conditions, probably As Fig. 13 shows, very good estimations of the crack size were
nearer to plane stress state for very small and very large a/d ratios. obtained. This result, in addition to its great practical importance,
Fig. 14. Estimation of the multiplication factor Y(a/d), over the whole range (a), and detail for a/d < 0.05 (b).
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Y (a/d)
Y (a/d) 2.0
Experimental estimation
2.0
1.5 1.5
1.0 1.0
0.5 0.5
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20
a/d a/d
Fig. 15. Obtained Y(a/d) results, compared to other author solutions, over the whole range (a), and detail for a/d < 0.2 (b).
Δσ was used to relate the stiffness with the crack size on the entire
100
th =Δ range of a/d. Besides, a finite element analysis was performed in or-
K
th /(π der to corroborate the experimental result, finding a curve with
a) 1/2
similar profile, although deviated in some degree from the experi-
mental data. The numerical analysis was performed in very simple
l0 = 142μm way using 3D elements, and only the threaded rod was modeled in
several scenarios (i.e. different crack sizes and the same applied
10
10 100 1000 10000 load). Fig. 18 shows a detail of the generated mesh and result of
a [μm] displacement obtained with the performed FEA. This point can be
improved through more specific studies, either numerical [24] or
Fig. 16. Critical length separating short crack behavior and long crack behavior. experimentally.
Referred to the estimation of the multiplication factor Y(a/d),
the overlapping symbols in Fig. 14 indicates that the same overall
allowed to estimate the multiplication factor Y(a/d), by using a var- curve was obtained with all specimens. However, a wide scatter
iation of the James–Anderson technique, although in this case was found for a/d ratios near to 0 (see Fig. 14b), which is strongly
some scatter for low values of the a/d ratio was found, as Fig. 14 dependent on the sensitivity of the equipment employed to mea-
shows. sure the strain in the cylinder. To improve this point, it should be
The relationship between a/d and the system’s stiffness was used an equipment capable to discriminate small strain variation
obtained experimentally by using marks generated on the crack associated to the beginning of the crack growth. Anyway, this
front in the way already described. With the intention of obtaining scatter was not considered as an important factor in this stage of
Short Large
crack crack
behavior behavior
3.5
Lower limit
3.0 (plane stress)
2.5
Y (a/d)
1.5
Upper limit
1.0
(plane
0.5
strain)
0.0
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 0.50 0.55 0.60 0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80
a/d
Fig. 17. Validity range of the Y(a/d) estimated solution.
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Fig. 18. Detail of the generated mesh and result of displacement obtained with the performed FEA.
(a) (b)
Bolt
Instrumented
thick washer
Plates
Nut
Fig. 19. Theoretical implementation of the proposed method in damage prognosis applications.
the study, as the applicability analysis based in linear elastic frac- Both results, the crack length a = f(n) and the dimensionless
ture mechanics hypothesis showed that the solution is valid stress intensity factor Y(a/d) are very promising due to their prac-
around 0.04 < a/d < 0.6, where the scatter is less significative. For tical significance; the crack length may be used to evaluate the
the tested specimens, the limit for small a/d ratio is imposed by damage of the joint, whereas the Y(a/d) may be used to estimate
small scale yielding (likely near to plane stress conditions) instead the critical crack length and the fatigue remaining life by integrat-
of short crack behavior. The limit for large a/d ratio is also deter- ing the Paris law.
mined by small scale yielding, although in this case, under plane The employed method can be used with research purposes to
strain state as a/d = 0.6. Due to the plastic radius cannot be normal- characterize the behavior of threaded rods or also it can be applied
ized, this validity range depends strongly on the size of the speci- to evaluate the structural health of the joint in real time and also in
men, being wider for larger the specimen. damage prognosis analysis [25]. By way of illustration, two appli-
As Fig. 15 shows, the obtained results were contrasted with sev- cation examples are shown in Fig. 19; a typical plate joint
eral solutions proposed in the bibliography. It was found a signifi- (Fig. 19a) and an implementation over a tubular joint as those used
cant similarity with the curves proposed by Mettu et al. [9] and de in oil drilling application (Fig. 19b).
Koning et al. [21] for the range 0.1 < a/d < 0.4. When a/d < 0.1 the
estimated solution of Y(a/d) is slightly smaller than those proposed
in the bibliography (except in the case of the model proposed by 5. Conclusions
Mettu et al. [9], where residuals stresses were considered and
therefore significant departure is expectable). For a/d > 0.45 the A method for fatigue testing of threaded joints is presented. It
estimated solution of Y(a/d) is substantially smaller than those pro- allows to perform tests in a very simple way, although retaining
posed in the bibliography. all the complexities of real joints.
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