25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.2.1

PROCESS INTERACTIONS AND FATIGUE LIFE

N. R. Downes, M. Raines, K. G. Swift
Univ. of Hull, UK

Keywords: Stress Concentrations, Process Interactions, Fatigue

This paper builds upon the current knowledge of feature interactions and their effects upon fatigue life by introducing the notion of process interaction. Testing has been carried out to validate the theory that common finishing processes yield similar stress effects to those exhibited by the interactions of features.

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