Fatigue Behaviour of Brazed Joints for Heat Exchangers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Material and Specimen Geometry of the Brazed Joint
2.2. Experimental Testing of Brazed Joints
2.3. Metallography
2.4. Computational Analyses of the Plate Heat Exchanger
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Quasi-Static Tensile Tests of Brazed Joint
3.2. High Cycle Fatigue Tests of Brazed Joint
3.3. Computational Analyses of the Plate Heat Exchanger
4. Conclusions
- Considering the experimental results for all four tensile specimens, the material model of the analysed brazed joint has been developed;
- The fatigue tests of brazed tensile specimens were performed to obtain the S − N plot. The experimentally obtained S − N curve was then used for the subsequent computational analyses of PHE with different geometrical configurations (i.e., different defects inside the PHE);
- The computational results have shown that individual defects (i.e., non-brazed joints) significantly influence the displacement and stress distribution near these defects. Namely, each non-brazed joint increases the stress field around the surrounding brazed joints, which leads to a shorter fatigue life of the whole structure of PHE;
- The developed computational model can be further used for the fatigue analyses of different PHEs. However, the computational model for the subsequent numerical analyses should be improved, considering the effect of temperature and boundary conditions (i.e., the connection of the PHE to the other components) on the fatigue behaviour of PHE. Furthermore, the experimental testing of the whole structure of PHE should be performed to confirm the computational results.
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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C | Si | Mn | P | S | Cr | Mo | Ni | N |
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≤0.03 | ≤1.0 | ≤2.0 | ≤0.045 | ≤0.015 | 16.5–18.5 | 2.0–2.5 | 10.0–13.0 | ≤0.11 |
Geometry Configuration | Fatigue Life N [Cycles] |
---|---|
PGOPH | 42.7 × 106 |
ONBJD | 5.3 × 106 |
HNBJD | 2.0 × 106 |
VNBJD | 1.9 × 106 |
TNBJD | 1.7 × 106 |
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Hanželič, B.; Kralj, J.; Bončina, T.; Nečemer, B.; Kramberger, J.; Satošek, R.; Glodež, S. Fatigue Behaviour of Brazed Joints for Heat Exchangers. Materials 2024, 17, 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17020479
Hanželič B, Kralj J, Bončina T, Nečemer B, Kramberger J, Satošek R, Glodež S. Fatigue Behaviour of Brazed Joints for Heat Exchangers. Materials. 2024; 17(2):479. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17020479
Chicago/Turabian StyleHanželič, Blaž, Jernej Kralj, Tonica Bončina, Branko Nečemer, Janez Kramberger, Roman Satošek, and Srečko Glodež. 2024. "Fatigue Behaviour of Brazed Joints for Heat Exchangers" Materials 17, no. 2: 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17020479