Ship plates suffer from both low-cycle fatigue damage and accumulative plastic
damage under asymmetric low-cycle fatigue loading. The accumulative plastic
damage under asymmetric low-cycle fatigue loading was investigated using the
Chaboche model for numerical analysis, during which the accumulative plastic
deformation localized around the region of the notch root was taken as the control
parameter. The corresponding experiments were conducted and compared
with the results of theoretical analysis in this paper. Based on a series of
calculations by finite element simulation, the influence of stress amplitude, mean
stress, stress ratio, and initial notch radius on the accumulative plastic strain
were investigated and discussed. Based on the fatigue fracture toughness at
the root of the ship plate, this paper presents a new assessment approach
for additional damage caused by plastic deformation under asymmetrical
low cycles.