Abstract:The stop-drilling technique is a simple and economic way to delay crack propagationby drilling a hole on the crack tip and reducing stress concentration. This paper presents thepropagation of cracks and investigates how the increasing of the stop-drill diameter improvescrack initiation life in specimens of 2024-T3 aluminium alloy of C-130 aircraft skin. A numericalmethod was applied to simulate an automatic crack propagation by interacting ANSYSr andMATLABr, and several experimental fatigue tests were done to … Show more
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