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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K21900/01
Title:	HIGH TEMPERATURE CRACK GROWTH CYCLICALLY HARDENING ENGINEERING ALLOYS (ERCOS)
Principal Investigator:	Smith, Professor D
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Project Partners:	EDF
Department:	Mechanical Engineering
Organisation:	University of Bristol
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 1994	Ends:	30 April 1998	Value (£):	111,674
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials testing & eng.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing
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The principal aim is to obtain a fundamental understanding about near crack tip deformation behaviour of a cyclically hardening alloy at high temperature and to explore how this influences combined fatigue and creep crack growth. The project will: (i) carry out an experimental programme to characterise the deformation and crack growth response for creep and fatigue loading of a candidate engineering alloy by examining behaviour at extremes of non-hardened and strain hardened response;(ii) carry out a theoretical analysis to determine near crack tip continuum stress and strain fields for combined loading and develop fracture mechanics parameters; (iii) identify mechanisms of crack advance using fractography and microscopy from the experimental work and correlate results with Cambridge University, with mainly experimental work at Bristol and theoretical work at Cambridge.
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