SKF, Sweden, and Bearings Services Durban, South Africa, conducted a collaborative bearing failure analysis at Tongaat Hulett’s sugar refinery in Durban, South Africa, identifying inadequate lubrication as the root cause of rolling contact fatigue and providing corrective measures to prevent future failure.
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Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, collaborated with the U.S. Air Force to enhance fleet safety by developing advanced risk and damage tolerance analyses that led to a more effective inspection schedule for the T-38 Talon-helping detect cracks before they become critical.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $445,515 to a team including researchers at Penn State Shenango, Sharon, Pa., and Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, to explore the fatigue behavior of 3D-printed materials.
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The Air Force and engine builder Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., completed a $21 million, fleet-wide retrofit effort for the F-22 Raptor’s dual F119 engines, after identifying a fatigue issue with turbine blades that led to seven class A mishaps, nearly $23 million in damages, but no operational interruption.
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Hardide Coatings, UK, has entered into a partnership with Gardner Aerospace, UK, to coat key wing components for the Airbus A320 family of aircraft.
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Scientists describe how pieces of pure platinum and copper spontaneously healed cracks caused by metal fatigue during nanoscale experiments that had been designed to study how such cracks form and spread in metal placed under stress.
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Inspired by the hinge of bivalve Cristaria plicata, a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) proposed their tactics to improve the fatigue resistance of structural materials.
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