Engine components subjected to cyclic thermal and mechanical loads may experience low-cycle or high-cycle fatigue failures. In particular, both of these failures can easily occur in aluminum cylinder heads, which are exposed to high temperatures and combustion pressures. Predicting the fatigue characteristics of the cylinder head are very important in the design stage of engine development. In this study, a finite element analysis was performed to predict the low-cycle thermal fatigue around exhaust ports of the cylinder head. Temperature distributions are obtained through the heat transfer analysis considering thermal cyclic test. The analysis result involves large plastic deformations, indicating compressive stresses at high temperatures and subsequently turn into tensile stresses at cold conditions. And the results showed that the critical regions such as exhaust port with large plastic strains coincided well with crack locations from thermal cyclic test. Next, design changes were made to the critical areas of the exhaust ports, and the results showed that the durability was improved by about 60% over the initial model and there were no problems in the thermal fatigue test.

본 수치해석의 목적은 앵글 강부재의 극저사이클 파괴실험으로부터 얻어진 거동의 재현 빛 특히， 부재중에 서 가장 심한 웅력을 받는 부분에 대한 국소 웅력-변형률의 이력과 누적상황을 추적하는 것이다. 이를위해， 범용 구조해석 프로그램인 MSC/NASTRAN을 이용하여， 재료 및 기하학적 비선형을 고려한 대변형 3 차원 유한요소해석을 행하였다. 해석은 2 단계 즉， 해석 I 파 n 로 나누어 실시하였으며， 본 해석의 첸반적인 가동 은 실험결과와 매우 잘 일치하였다.