| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L90217/01 |
| Title: |
JREI:ENHANCEMENT OF FRETTING FATIGUE TEST FACILITIES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Nowell, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Engineering Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
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JREI |
| Starts: |
01 February 1998 |
Ends: |
31 January 2001 |
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48,230
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This proposal involves the enhancement of experimental facilities in the solid mechanics group at the Dept. of Engineering Science, Uni. of Oxford. Facilities will be improved by provision of a new two-actuator fretting fatiguing test machine suitable for materials tests and validation of theoretical maodels of the fretting process. An existing straining frame will be reconfigured and re-equiped to rpovide a facility for tests on representative component geometries. A furnace will be provided for tests at elevated temperature and a modern data-logging system will be perchased. A programme of work is proposed in which the equipment will be used to validate theoretical models of initiation fatigue will be adressed by appliaction of shakedown methods to a model of contract as the asperity scale. Short crack analysis will be employed to predict crack self-arrest under the conact stress field. The propsal is supported financially by Rolls-Royce and Oxford Uni.
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http://www.ox.ac.uk |