Issue 51

A. Vedernikova et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 21 (2020) 1-8; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.01 2 One of the techniques is based on the application of original Seebeck effect-based contact heat flux sensor, which ensures the quantitative integral heat flow values in some area near the crack tip. Such methodology was originally used for studying energy dissipation in liquid flows [3] and the failure of metals [2, 4]. The second method for heat flux estimation involves analysis of temperature distribution measurements obtained for the specimen surface by means of infrared (IR) thermography. Plastic strain-induced heat sources were calculated by solving the volume-averaged heat conduction equation. The main difficulties associated with application of the second technique can be attributed to the necessity to differentiate strongly oscillating signals and to determine the parameters responsible for the interaction between the specimen and the external environment. Nevertheless, IR thermography data are widely used to gain deeper insight in the process of plastic deformation and fracture of metallic materials [5-10]. It was shown in [11, 12] that the results of contact (heat flux sensor) and non-contact (IR thermography) measurements of energy dissipation during irreversible deformation agree well. The third, lock-in thermography, method provides space-resolved measurements, extracts thermoelastic information directly from the thermal signal [13] and investigates energy dissipation using the double frequency method proposed by Sakagami [14]. Lock-in thermography is employed to detect crack initiation and propagation in structural materials using thermographic mapping [15-25]. In this study, we have shown that the energy dissipation values measured by the thermography techniques are in good qualitative agreement with the results obtained by the method in which contact heat flux sensors are used. This provides evidence that contact and non-contact measurements can be used either separately (fast assessment of the material state at different loading stages) or in combination (verification of the heat source value and estimation of its distribution over the material surface). E XPERIMENTAL series of tests were performed on V-notched flat specimens made of stainless steel AISI 304 and subjected to cyclic loading at a frequency of 10 Hz (constant stress amplitude 12 kN and stress ratio R = 0). Fig. 1 shows the geometry of the specimens and the experimental setup scheme. The chemical composition of the material examined is given in Tab. 1. C Cr Fe Mn Ni P S Si 0.08 18-20 66.34-74 2 8-10.5 0.045 0.03 1 Table 1 : Chemical composition (wt. %) of stainless steel AISI 304. (a) (b) (c) Figure 1 : (a) specimen geometry; (b) schematic of the measuring equipment: 1 – test specimen, 2 – grips of the testing machine, 3 – contact heat flux sensor, 4 –potential drop measuring setup to monitor the crack length, 5 – infrared camera; (c) photo of the specimen and the measuring equipment. A