Study on Fatigue Performance and Life Prediction of Q420qENH Welded Joint After Corrosion
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1. East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013 ,China ; 2. State Key Laboratory of Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering in Mountainous area, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013 , China

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    To investigate the fatigue performance of Q420qENH welded joints after corrosion, electrolytic accelerated corrosion tests and fatigue experiments were conducted on specimens, combined with numerical simulation. A thermal-mechanical coupled finite element model was established to simulate the welding process. The fatigue life of corroded welded joints was predicted using ABAQUS and FE-SAFE by introducing residual stress fields and stress concentration factors. The results show that all specimens fractured at the corrosion pits in the middle of the weld toe. Residual stress presents tensile stress, and the fatigue life of specimens decreases significantly with the increase of fatigue stress amplitude and corrosion time. The relative errors between test and simulation results are within 15%. The S-N curves with a 95% survival rate were fitted to the fatigue data obtained from experiments and simulations, when the cycle count reaches 2 million, the maximum error between tests and sumulations is merely 4.31%, indicating small errors and good prediction accuracy. It is recommended to adjust the fatigue allowable stress amplitude category of butt joints for railway non-painted Q420qENH weathering steel to category Ⅶ in bridge design.

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程海根,赵小波,邹鹏,等. Q420qENH焊接接头腐蚀后疲劳性能研究及寿命预测[J]. 华东交通大学学报,2026,43(4):63-73.

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  • Received:May 22,2025
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