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EPSRC Reference: GR/L90217/01
Title: JREI:ENHANCEMENT OF FRETTING FATIGUE TEST FACILITIES
Principal Investigator: Nowell, Professor D
Other Investigators:
Hills, Professor D
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Project Partners:
Rolls-Royce Plc
Department: Engineering Science
Organisation: University of Oxford
Scheme: JREI
Starts: 01 February 1998 Ends: 31 January 2001 Value (£): 48,230
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials testing & eng.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
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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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