A Study on the Fatigue Crack Growth Under Variable Loading of Titanium Alloy

티탄합금의 변동하중하의 피로균열진전거동

  • 이종형 (금오공과대학교 기계공학부) ;
  • 이상영 (금오공과대학교 대학원) ;
  • 이창헌 (금오공과대학교 대학원) ;
  • 김윤곤 (금오공과대학교 대학원) ;
  • 임춘규 (금오공과대학교 대학원) ;
  • 이춘곤 (금오공과대학교 대학원) ;
  • 권영신 (금오공과대학교 대학원)
  • Received : 2007.04.12
  • Accepted : 2007.11.09
  • Published : 2007.11.30

Abstract

Most of the fatigue fractures of various machine structures start at discontinuities or small defects. In this study property of crack growth of titanium alloy was also analyzed to investigate the difference compared with the carbon steel. Titanium alloy has very high specific strength, and the material is widely utilized in advanced engineering fields such as aerospace, atomic energy and ocean development because of its excellence in corrosion and heat resistance. Generally the machine structures experience irregular loadings rather than periodic forces. The prediction of the fatigue life therefore has been analyzed to provide fundamentals of the design and estimation of the machine structures under irregular loading conditions.

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