ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Air and Spacecraft
Effects of Prior Processing on the Service Life of an 18% Nickel Maraging Steel Helicopter Landing Mount
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Published:2019
Abstract
The US Army Research Laboratory performed a failure investigation on a broken main landing gear mount from an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. A component had failed in flight, and initially prevented the helicopter from safely landing. In order to avoid a catastrophe, the pilot had to perform a low hover maneuver to the maintenance facility, where ground crews assembled concrete blocks at the appropriate height to allow the aircraft to safely touch down. The failed part was fabricated from maraging 300 grade steel (2,068 MPa [300 ksi] ultimate tensile strength), and was subjected to visual inspection/light optical microscopy, metallography,...
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Member Sign InM.S. Pepi, Effects of Prior Processing on the Service Life of an 18% Nickel Maraging Steel Helicopter Landing Mount, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Air and Spacecraft, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.aero.c9001717
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