The fatigue crack growth behaviour of 2024 T3 aluminium was investigated experimentally. The fatigue experiments were performed under constant stress amplitude, constant amplitude with single and multiple overloads and aircraft service spectra. The fatigue spectra used correspond to the air-to-air, air-to-ground and instrumentation and navigation flight phases. They were applied for different stress levels. In total 11 different random flight service spectra were examined. The retardation effects caused by the overloads on the fatigue crack growth behaviour and the fatigue crack growth under aircraft service spectra were predicted using an in-house-developed code. The code makes use of the strip plastic zone approximation to account for material hardening effects along the path of prospective crack growth. Crack growth is treated incrementally and corresponds to failure of material elements ahead of an existing crack after a certain critical number of fatigue cycles. For the simulation of irregular service spectra by equivalent sequences of distinguished stress cycles a modified rainflow counting method is utilized. Spectrum simulation accounts also for non-linearity in fatigue damage accumulation and load sequence effects. The computed fatigue curves fit well with the experimental results.


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    Title :

    Fatigue crack growth analysis of 2024 T3 aluminium specimens under aircraft service spectra


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    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    12 Seiten, 43 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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