Abstract:The presence of a crack significantly reduces the load bearing capacity of a structure made of fracture prone material. The conventional process of repairing a defect is gouging and filling the gouged location by rewelding. It is not only time consuming but also constrained by the number of repairs that can be done as material properties degrade with each round of rewelding. In an attempt to overcome the limitation of the conventional repair process, repairing a defect using composite patch is proposed. The st… Show more
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