ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Air and Spacecraft
Material-Based Failure Analysis of a Helicopter Rotor Hub
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Published:2019
Abstract
A Lynx helicopter from the Royal Netherlands Navy lost a rotor blade during preparation for take-off. The blade loss was due to failure of a rotor hub arm by fatigue. The arm was integral to the titanium alloy rotor hub. An extensive material based failure analysis covered the hub manufacture, service damage, and estimates of service stresses. There was no evidence for failure due to poor material properties. However, fractographic and fracture mechanics analyses of the service failure, a full scale test failure, and specimen test failures indicated that the service fatigue stress history could have been more severe...
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Member Sign InR.J.H. Wanhill, Material-Based Failure Analysis of a Helicopter Rotor Hub, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Air and Spacecraft, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.aero.c9001636
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