ArcelorMittal Global R&D Gent – OCAS, Zelzate, Belgium
Okan Yilmaz
Biography
Okan Yilmaz is a research engineer working at ArcelorMittal Global R&D Gent, OCAS, specializing in computational solid mechanics, in particular dynamic fracture analysis. His current activities focus on modeling fracture and fatigue characteristics of steel structures.
Conferences
Room |
Date |
Hour |
Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room 8 |
20-11-2025 |
10:45 am – 11:15 am |
130 Fatigue life assessment of cold-formed ultra-high strength steel sections |
Conferences Details
130 Fatigue life assessment of cold-formed ultra-high strength steel sections
The usage of ultra-high strength steels is ideal for thinner, lighter, and smarter solutions due to enhanced mechanical properties. These designs lead to weight reduction, consequent fuel and energy savings, higher payloads, and material cost savings. Target applications include but are not limited to yellow and green goods, trucks, tippers, cranes, and heavy mechanical equipment, where fatigue performance is critical in design due to cyclic service loads. Decreasing the thickness of current products for weight reduction results in increased stresses, which make the use of ultra-high strength steels essential. These materials have higher yield and tensile strengths than conventional mild steels and better fatigue resistance. To ensure safety under repeated loading, it must be known that fatigue failure typically originates from stress raisers. These stress raisers can be inherent in the microstructure, due to surface condition, or they result from joining, cutting, and forming procedures. In this study, we use an in-house fatigue testing setup to consider the complex effect of cold forming in predicting number of cycles of a formed part. Finite-element analysis is used to predict the number of cycles. Utilizing a hybrid approach that combines experimental and numerical outputs, it is possible to define a design space to account the effects of forming parameters such as bending ratio and surface state. The accurate quantification of the effect of cold forming on fatigue life is crucial for the applications with fatigue-critical formed sections and to optimize future designs.