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FATIGUE – FAILURES VARIOUS MECHANICAL COMPONENTS acks in bicycle frame Helical gear Spring Steering arm Pedal Stub axle Bolt Shaft - torsion Source: The Open University - http://materials.open.ac.uk/mem/mem_mf.htm

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FATIGUE – FAILURESVARIOUS MECHANICAL COMPONENTS

Cracks in bicycle frame Helical gear Spring Steering arm

Pedal Stub axle Bolt Shaft - torsion

Source: The Open University - http://materials.open.ac.uk/mem/mem_mf.htm

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

December 19, 2005, off Miami Beach, Florida, Grumman G73T Turbo Mallard seaplane Fatigue cracks in the right wing.

Lading gear fatigue failure

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - April 28, 1988Cracks in the fuselage

SHIPS

USS Tanker ship fractured in January 1943

Liberty ship - USS Carlos Carillo• 2,751 built between 1941-1945• Built from welded sections• 1500 instances of significant brittle

fractures• 19 ships broke in half without warning• Steel embrittlement• Cracks initiated from stress

concentrators• Crack propagation along weld lines(source: www.wikipedia.com)

STRESS ANALYSIS – FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

Airplane wing spar

NOTCHED SPECIMENS DUCTILE FRACTURE STUDIES

Finite element analyses Scanning electron microscopy