In this study, a resonant bending fatigue test rig, designed and implemented by the University of Pisa, is presented, providing a detailed description of the set-up of the machine, the strain gauges calibrations, and the control system used with the main electronic devices. Several geometries of drill pipe connections and pipe samples made of different materials were tested, and all the obtained experimental fatigue results are presented in the paper and compared to previous experimental data. Fractographic images are provided to clearly show that, in two kinds of drill pipe connections, the crack initiation was found at the connection zone, whereas for another connection geometry, it was found at the pipe body. In order to interpret these latter results, a discussion about the section modulus of bending of the various sections of the drill pipes was provided, along with an FE model of a specific zone of one of these connections.
The aim of this paper is to model the elastic–plastic uniaxial behaviour of a quenched and tempered steel. The common Chaboche isotropic kinematic hardening model (CIKH) is introduced, and a physics-based procedure is proposed to determine its parameters. This procedure is based on strain- and stress-controlled tests and is focused on the stabilized cycles. The imposed cycle properties are the hysteresis area, the stress range, the slope at the inversion points, obtained from the stabilized cycles of strain-controlled tests, and the ratcheting rate extracted from a stress-controlled test. The novelty of the algorithm is to determine the hardening parameters from the global properties of the cycle rather than imposing a pointwise fitting, which is also implemented to calculate the parameters for a comparison. The Bouc–Wen model showed great flexibility in describing nonlinear behaviours, corresponding to different physical phenomena, through an appropriate tuning of its parameter values. In this paper, another optimization approach is developed to estimate the Bouc–Wen coefficients and accurately describe the same experimental cycles. The performances of the Bouc–Wen model are compared with the predictions of the Chaboche model, and a discussion comparing the techniques used to reproduce cyclic plastic behaviour is provided.
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