| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J65112/01 |
| Title: |
PROBABILISTIC APPROACH FOR FATIQUE DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION OF CAST ALUMINIUM STRUCTURES (PRO-CAST) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Evans, Professor WJ |
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| Department: |
Materials Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Swansea University |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
01 May 1994 |
Ends: |
31 October 1997 |
Value (£): |
180,305
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Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The aim is first to characterise as-cast defects and those produced by machining or by shot-peening in terms of dimensions, residual stress and position in microstructure. Short-crack growth studies will be made to provide a deterministic relationship between defect size/character and fatigue life and the deterministic relationships will then be fed into a probabilistic model to predict fatigue life based on the distribution of defects. The model will be validated using rig tests. Alternative algorithms will be assessed.
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