La thermographie infrarouge active s’impose

La thermographie infrarouge active consiste à soumettre l’élément à contrôler à une excitation extérieure maîtrisée et à y analyser la propagation de la chaleur : les perturbations visualisées révèlent alors les éventuels défauts surfaciques ou subsurfaciques tels que fissures, délaminages, corrosion, inclusions d’eau ou d’éléments étrangers, etc. La formation du Cetim, sur deux jours, débute par la présentation des principes physiques de la méthode, les matériels utilisés, les types d’excitation, les logiciels de traitement d’image, les paramètres d’influence, etc.

La société Otecmi, a souhaité se former à la thermographie infrarouge active. Une technique bien adaptée à la détection des défauts dans les composites…

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Investigation of Minor Leakage in a Fuel Oil Return Line

A small fuel oil return line of a stationary gas turbine engine failed by high cycle fatigue cracking. In the metallurgical root cause investigation, performed by the original equipment manufacturer’s laboratory, it was determined that insufficient support of the fuel line and the ensuing vibration led to dynamic alternating bending stresses, that had their maximum immediately adjacent to the connector weld of the flange…………. Read more

Microscopy and C-Scan Techniques in the Study of Defects of CFRP Composites

A new article published in Practical Metallography: Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 353-366.

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic composites were fabricated through vacuum resin infusion technology by adopting two different processing conditions, viz., vacuum only in the first and vacuum plus external pressure in the next, in order to generate two levels of void-bearing samples. They were relatively graded as higher and lower void-bearing ones, respectively. Microscopy and C-scan techniques were utilized to describe the presence of voids arising from the two different processing parameters……….. Read more

FLEXURAL FATIGUE FAILURE ANALYSIS OF GLASS POLYESTER UNIDIRECTIONAL ANGLE PLY COMPOSITE LAMINATE

ijerstThis paper, published in « International Journal of Engineering Research and Science & Technology« , presents a study of the fatigue failure behavior of unidirectional angle ply composite laminate. Today a lot of research is directed to understand the fatigue failure behavior of laminated composites. These materials usage is increasing in all sorts of engineering applications due tohigh specific strength and stiffness, low weight and corrosion resistance. Fibre reinforced composite materials are selected for weight critical applications, due to good rating as per the fatigue failure is concerned and these materials are anisotropic in nature. The failure behavior made the study of these materials complicated………….

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FAILURE ANALYSIS OF RE-BARS DURING BENDING OPERATIONS

Thermo-mechanical treated(TMT) rebar is suitable material for reinforcing concrete structures on accounts of similarity in thermal expansion, ability to bond well with concrete and, above all the ability to shoulder most of the tensile stress acting on the structure and also steel manufacturing industry has successfully developed a corrosion-resistant variety of rebar for the construction industry. As the TMT is the finish product thus proper control of rolling parameters and water box is needed to achieve adequate property. Water box plays an important role for achieving the final structure and property of the rebars.Water box is responsible for outer rim formation and which helps to achieve the yield strength of the material. The present paper highlights failure investigation of a failed rebar during bending operations. From Fractography and microstructural analysis it is confirmed that the rebar sample failed in brittle manner due to through harden martensitic structure and which indicates that there is some anomaly in water box resulting in these premature failures.

Source : Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis

Mécanique de la rupture fragile et de l’endommagement : approches statistiques et probabilistes

Cet ouvrage écrit par Jacques Lamon et édité par la Librairie Lavoisier, analyse le phénomène de la rupture fragile, son caractère aléatoire et les conséquences de la présence de populations de défauts dans les matériaux. Il présente les approches stochastiques de la rupture fragile et les méthodes de prévision sous des conditions diverses.  Lire la suite

Corrosion des pièces soudées : essais sur mobilier

Cet ouvrage présente les résultats d’une campagne d’essais réalisée à la demande de la commission « Mobilier » du Cetim sur les facteurs influents dans le développement de la corrosion des pièces soudées.

Deux procédés de soudage ont été comparés et des défauts volontaires ont été introduits au niveau des soudures pour analyser leurs effets en matière de corrosion après application de la peinture. Une pièce présentant des points de soudure et des zones difficiles d’accès a également été étudiée.

Cet ouvrage est réservé aux cotisants de la profession.  Corrosion mobiliers metal

SCC investigation of low alloy ultra-high strength steel

An interesting paper in « Chinese Journal of Aeronautics«  published on ScienceDirect.com.

The paper reports detail of investigation carried out. SCC behavior of low alloy ultra-high strength steel 30CrMnSiNi2A in neutral 3.5 wt%NaCl solution is investigated by SSRT with different strain rates under OCP, cathodic, and anodic polarization potentials, electrochemical measurements and surface analysis technique. The effect of strain rate on SCC behavior is analyzed and SCC mechanisms at OCP, cathodic and anodic polarization potentials are discussed in detail.

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Airbus va accentuer l’inspection des poutres d’ailes de l’A380 – Capital.fr

Airbus a ordonné des inspections accrues sur les ailes de son très gros porteur A380 après avoir découvert des niveaux inattendus de fatigue du métal durant des tests en usine, a-t-on appris jeudi de sources industrielles.

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Analysis of internal corrosion in subsea oil pipeline

A new interesting article in « Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis ».

Failure of a subsea crude oil API 5L X52 steel pipeline which led to oil leakage has been reported to occur after 27 years in service. Some leaks were found to form at the bottom of the horizontal API 5L X52 steel pipeline near an elbow section which connected the pipeline to a riser. The article present investigations to analyze the main cause of failure

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