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FINITE ELEMENT ELASTIC‐PLASTIC‐CREEP AND CYCLIC LIFE ANALYSIS OF A COWL LIP
Author(s) -
Arya V. K.,
Melis M. E.,
Halford G. R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1991.tb00006.x
Subject(s) - creep , materials science , structural engineering , stress (linguistics) , composite material , plasticity , yield (engineering) , engineering , philosophy , linguistics
Results are presented of elastic, elastic‐plastic and elastic‐plastic‐creep analyses of an actively cooled cowl lip. A cowl lip is part of the leading edge of an engine inlet of proposed hypersonic aircraft and is subject to severe thermal loadings and gradients during flight. Values of stresses calculated by elastic analysis are well above the yield strength of the cowl lip material. Such values are highly unrealistic, and thus elastic stress analyses are inappropriate. The inelastic (elastic‐plastic and elastic‐plastic‐creep) analyses produce more reasonable and acceptable stress and strain distributions in the component. Finally, using the results from these analyses, predictions are made for the cyclic crack initiation life of a cowl lip. A comparison of predicted cyclic lives shows the cyclic life prediction from the elastic‐plastic‐creep analysis to be the lowest and, hence, most realistic.