Construction of a Generalized Fatigue Diagram of Metallic Materials

2019 ◽  
Vol 945 ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V. Bashkov ◽  
A.A. Popkova ◽  
G.A. Gadoev ◽  
Tatiana I. Bashkova ◽  
Denis B. Solovev

The paper presents the results of the study of the stage of accumulation of damage and fatigue rupture of titanium alloys (using the method of acoustic emission). The main object of research was the development of a method for designing a generalized fatigue diagram characterizing the stage of fatigue damage accumulation. The studies aimed at experimental verification of the hypothesis of the stage of damage accumulation, which can be established only by the registered parameters of acoustic emission with separate analysis by types of acoustic emission sources. In contrast to the method of research, which is carried out fractographic analysis, the use of acoustic emission method can significantly reduce the amount of testing. The types of acoustic emission sources on the distribution plane of two-parameter “AE signal energy EAE vs. frequency parameter Kf” are considered. Fatigue stages in the tests of trial alloys were determined by the activity of the AE signals emitted by different types of AE sources (dislocation, micro - and macro-cracks). A generalized diagram of fatigue developed according to the specified stages. The developed method significantly reduces the volume of fatigue tests and fractographic studies.

Aviation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandrs URBAHS ◽  
Kristine CARJOVA ◽  
Jurijs FESCUKS

The study is devoted to a perspective diagnostic method, which makes it possible to deal with diagnostic tasks – the acoustic non-destructive inspection method based on acoustic emission (AE) signal parameter analysis. The practical use of this method is related to the interpretation of diagnostic measurement data. The parameters of acoustic emission (AE) signals were measured during bench tests of the tail boom structure and fin, as well as the joint areas of the fin, tail boom, and fuselage of the helicopter (joint area No.1 and No.19, frames of the tail boom and fuselage respectively).The analysis of fatigue damage kinetics was carried out in several stages for groups of bolts and for characteristic structure loading intervals. Bolt fracture was predicted at least 26 to 44 flight hours before the actual collapse. Using the AE parameters, the micro crack origin intervals identified when the bolt bearing capacity after the occurrence of the damage reached 96%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7045
Author(s):  
Ming-Chyuan Lu ◽  
Shean-Juinn Chiou ◽  
Bo-Si Kuo ◽  
Ming-Zong Chen

In this study, the correlation between welding quality and features of acoustic emission (AE) signals collected during laser microwelding of stainless-steel sheets was analyzed. The performance of selected AE features for detecting low joint bonding strength was tested using a developed monitoring system. To obtain the AE signal for analysis and develop the monitoring system, lap welding experiments were conducted on a laser microwelding platform with an attached AE sensor. A gap between the two layers of stainless-steel sheets was simulated using clamp force, a pressing bar, and a thin piece of paper. After the collection of raw signals from the AE sensor, the correlations of welding quality with the time and frequency domain features of the AE signals were analyzed by segmenting the signals into ten 1 ms intervals. After selection of appropriate AE signal features based on a scatter index, a hidden Markov model (HMM) classifier was employed to evaluate the performance of the selected features. Three AE signal features, namely the root mean square (RMS) of the AE signal, gradient of the first 1 ms of AE signals, and 300 kHz frequency feature, were closely related to the quality variation caused by the gap between the two layers of stainless-steel sheets. Classification accuracy of 100% was obtained using the HMM classifier with the gradient of the signal from the first 1 ms interval and with the combination of the 300 kHz frequency domain signal and the RMS of the signal from the first 1 ms interval.


2013 ◽  
Vol 690-693 ◽  
pp. 2442-2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Lin Li ◽  
Hao Yang Cao ◽  
Chen Jiang

This work presents an experiment research on Acoustic emission (AE) signal and the surface roughness of cylindrical plunge grinding with the different infeed time. The changed infeed time of grinding process is researched as an important parameter to compare AE signals and surface roughnesses with the different infeed time in the grinding process. The experiment results show the AE signal is increased by the increased feed rate. In the infeed period of the grinding process, the surface roughness is increased at first, and then is decreased.


2010 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Chuan Jun Liao ◽  
Shuang Fu Suo ◽  
Wei Feng Huang

Acoustic emission (AE) techniques are put forward to monitor rub-impacts between rotating rings and stationary rings of mechanical seals by this paper. By analyzing feature extraction methods of the typical rub-impact AE signal, the method combining of wavelet scalogram and power spectrum is found useful, and can used to attribute the feature information implicated in rub-impact AE signals of mechanical seal end faces. Both simulations and experimental research prove that the method is effective, and are used successfully to identify the typical features of different types of rub-impacts of mechanical seal end faces.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-633
Author(s):  
Hoi-Yin Sim ◽  
Rahizar Ramli ◽  
Ahmad Saifizul

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of reciprocating compressor speeds and valve conditions on the roor-mean-square (RMS) value of burst acoustic emission (AE) signals associated with the physical motion of valves. The study attempts to explore the potential of AE signal in the estimation of valve damage under varying compressor speeds. Design/methodology/approach This study involves the acquisition of AE signal, valve flow rate, pressure and temperature at the suction valve of an air compressor with speed varrying from 450 to 800 rpm. The AE signals correspond to one compressor cycle obtained from two simulated valve damage conditions, namely, the single leak and double leak conditions are compared to those of the normal valve plate. To examine the effects of valve conditions and speeds on AE RMS values, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) is conducted. Finally, regression analysis is performed to investigate the relationship of AE RMS with the speed and valve flow rate for different valve conditions. Findings The results showed that AE RMS values computed from suction valve opening (SVO), suction valve closing (SVC) and discharge valve opening (DVO) events are significantly affected by both valve conditions and speeds. The AE RMS value computed from SVO event showed high linear correlation with speed compared to SVC and DVO events for all valve damage conditions. As this study is conducted at a compressor running at freeload, increasing speed of compressor also results in the increment of flow rate. Thus, the valve flow rate can also be empirically derived from the AE RMS value through the regression method, enabling a better estimation of valve damages. Research limitations/implications The experimental test rig of this study is confined to a small pressure ratio range of 1.38–2.03 (free-loading condition). Besides, the air compressor is assumed to be operated at a constant speed. Originality/value This study employed the statistical methods namely the ANOVA and regression analysis for valve damage estimation at varying compressor speeds. It can enable a plant personnel to make a better prediction on the loss of compressor efficiency and help them to justify the time for valve replacement in future.


Lubricants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noushin Mokhtari ◽  
Jonathan Gerald Pelham ◽  
Sebastian Nowoisky ◽  
José-Luis Bote-Garcia ◽  
Clemens Gühmann

In this work, effective methods for monitoring friction and wear of journal bearings integrated in future UltraFan® jet engines containing a gearbox are presented. These methods are based on machine learning algorithms applied to Acoustic Emission (AE) signals. The three friction states: dry (boundary), mixed, and fluid friction of journal bearings are classified by pre-processing the AE signals with windowing and high-pass filtering, extracting separation effective features from time, frequency, and time-frequency domain using continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the classifier. Furthermore, it is shown that journal bearing friction classification is not only possible under variable rotational speed and load, but also under different oil viscosities generated by varying oil inlet temperatures. A method used to identify the location of occurring mixed friction events over the journal bearing circumference is shown in this paper. The time-based AE signal is fused with the phase shift information of an incremental encoder to achieve an AE signal based on the angle domain. The possibility of monitoring the run-in wear of journal bearings is investigated by using the extracted separation effective AE features. Validation was done by tactile roughness measurements of the surface. There is an obvious AE feature change visible with increasing run-in wear. Furthermore, these investigations show also the opportunity to determine the friction intensity. Long-term wear investigations were done by carrying out long-term wear tests under constant rotational speeds, loads, and oil inlet temperatures. Roughness and roundness measurements were done in order to calculate the wear volume for validation. The integrated AE Root Mean Square (RMS) shows a good correlation with the journal bearing wear volume.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangying Liu ◽  
Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

A relationship developed earlier between acoustic emission signals and the process of athermal martensitic transformation based on the free energy associated with the process is extended and verified experimentally. The relationship is found to model the process characteristics very well. The intensity of AE signal generated during transformation was found to be proportional to the temperature derivative of the fraction of martensite, the cooling rate, and volume of specimen. The AE signal was also found to be related to the carbon content of the steel. During transformation, the signal intensity was found to increase to a peak, and then tail off near the end of the transformation. Values of the martensite start temperature obtained from plots of the total RMS squared AE signals were also found to correlate well with values from the literature.


Author(s):  
Mahesh C. Bogarapu ◽  
Igor Sevostianov

A new method of evaluation of elastic property deterioration due to accumulated damage is suggested and experimentally verified. It is based on the explicit correlations between two groups of anisotropic properties – conductivity and elasticity, recently established for porous/microcracked materials with anisotropic microstructures. An experimental study of fatigue has been done to verify the theoretical predictions. The electrical resistance and Young’s modulus are measured as functions of the number of loading cycles in the standard fatigue tests. The agreement between the theoretical predictions and the direct experimental data is better than 10% in all cases. The results allow one to use the measurement of electric resistance to estimate the damage accumulated in metal structures and decrease in the elastic modulus.


Holzforschung ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Baensch ◽  
Markus G.R. Sause ◽  
Andreas J. Brunner ◽  
Peter Niemz

Abstract Tensile tests on miniature spruce specimens have been performed by means of acoustic emission (AE) analysis. Stress was applied perpendicular (radial direction) and parallel to the grain. Nine features were selected from the AE frequency spectra. The signals were classified by means of an unsupervised pattern recognition approach, and natural classes of AE signals were identified based on the selected features. The algorithm calculates the numerically best partition based on subset combinations of the features provided for the analysis and leads to the most significant partition including the respective feature combination and the most probable number of clusters. For both specimen types investigated, the pattern recognition technique indicates two AE signal clusters. Cluster A comprises AE signals with a relatively high share of low-frequency components, and the opposite is true for cluster B. It is hypothesized that the signature of rapid and slow crack growths might be the origin for this cluster formation.


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