Measuring and testing – Specimen stress or strain – or testing by stress or strain... – Indicating coating or sheet providing direct visual indication
Patent
1983-03-30
1985-03-05
Ciarlante, Anthony V.
Measuring and testing
Specimen stress or strain, or testing by stress or strain...
Indicating coating or sheet providing direct visual indication
73787, G01N 1908
Patent
active
045023379
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to an improved fatigue damage indicator for a echanical member subjected to repetitive stress, comprising two thick elements which are spaced from one another and are connected one to the other by a thin web or plate formed with a slot and at least one pair of free opposite edges, the two elements being so connected with the mechanical member or fixed to the latter so that they are displaceable relative to one another in a plane parallel to the plane of the thin plate, the thick elements being disposed so as to be separated from one another in a direction substantially perpendicular to their direction of relative displacement by such stress, the thin plate being placed under shear force in its plane by such relative displacement, the slot of the thin plate extending from one of the edges of the web in the said direction and terminating short of the opposite edge in a blind end of the slot having two corners so that, with application of stress, two cracks develop at corners of the bottom of the crack and are propagated progressively in the web towards an opposite edge of the thin plate so that said cracks meet cracks propagating generally in a direction away from said opposite edge to detach, or substantially detach, a central zone of the thin plate delimited by said cracks, wherein the thick elements of the fatigue damage indicator are connected to each other not only by thin webs but in addition by two narrow, elongated struts disposed on either side of the web and directed perpendicularly to the axis of one or the two slots in this web.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4409841 (1983-10-01), Archer
Ciarlante Anthony V.
Dubno Herbert
Ross Karl F.
Societe Anonyme S.T.A.S. Societe Technique d'Accessoires Special
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