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COMMITTEE ON EVALUATION OF LONG-TERM AGING OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES USING ACCELERATED TEST METHODS
EDGAR A. STARKE, JR. (Chair),
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
RICHARD H. CORNELIA,
DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware
LONGIN B. GRESZCZUK,
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Huntington Beach, California
LYNETTE M. KARABIN,
Alcoa Technical Center, Alcoa Center, Pennsylvania
JOHN J. LEWANDOWSKI,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
ASHOK SAXENA,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
JAMES C. SEFERIS,
University of Washington, Seattle
RICHARD E. TRESSLER,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
DOUGLAS D. WARD,
GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Materials Advisory Board Liaison Representative
JAMES E. MCGRATH,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
National Materials Advisory Board
THOMAS E. MUNNS, Senior Program Officer
AIDA C. NEEL, Senior Project Assistant
JOHN A. HUGHES, Research Associate
NATIONAL MATERIALS ADVISORY BOARD
JAMES C. WILLIAMS (Chair),
GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio
JAN D. ACHENBACH,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
BILL R. APPLETON,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
ROBERT R. BEEBE,
Homestake Mining Company (Retired), Tucson Arizona
I. MELVIN BERNSTEIN,
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
J. KEITH BRIMACOMBE,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
JOHN V. BUSCH,
IBIS Associates, Inc., Wellesley, Massachusetts
HARRY E. COOK,
University of Illinois, Urbana
ROBERT EAGAN,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
CAROLYN HANSSON,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
KRISTINA M. JOHNSON,
University of Colorado, Boulder
LIONEL C. KIMERLING,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
JAMES E. McGRATH,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
RICHARD S. MULLER,
University of California, Berkeley
ELSA REICHMANIS,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
EDGAR A. STARKE,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
JOHN STRINGER,
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California
KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR,
General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
JAMES W. WAGNER,
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
JOSEPH G. WIRTH,
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California
Acknowledgments
The committee thanks the individuals who participated in the Workshop on Long-Term Aging of Materials and Structures. The information and ideas generated at the workshop were invaluable to the committee 's work. In particular, the effort that the invited speakers expended in preparing presentations for the conference is appreciated. Presentations were provided by Donald L. Grande, Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group; Michael D. Brunner, McDonnell Douglas; James C. Williams, GE Aircraft Engines; Han-Pin Kan, Northrop Aircraft Division; C.J. Peel, Defence Research Agency (UK); Mark D. Sensmeier, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Y.S. Matt Chou, Pacific Northwest Laboratory; Clive Bosnyak, Dow Chemical; Brian Wilshire, University College-Swansea (UK); John Stringer, Electric Power Research Institute; Rushad F. Eduljee, University of Delaware; Glenn C. Grimes, Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works”; Fahmy M. Haggag, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Robert J. Bucci, Alcoa Technical Center; and Carlos Blohm, Lufthansa German Airlines.
The committee is particularly grateful to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) liaison representatives, Charles E. Harris of NASA Langley Research Center and Michael Verilli of NASA Lewis Research Center for their participation in a number of committee discussions.
Finally, the committee gratefully acknowledges the support of Thomas E. Munns, National Materials Advisory Board Senior Program Officer, and Aida C. Neel, National Materials Advisory Board Senior Project Assistant.
Preface
A fundamental understanding of the physical phenomena associated with damage and failure must be developed to predict the response of a materials system to long-term exposure in a service environment. This can only be established by experimental materials characterization and development of the associated mathematical and computational models that describe the physical phenomena. While test methods and modeling codes are available to provide guidance on specific types of component design and test methodologies, these methods and models may require refinement and standardization.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration requested the National Research Council's National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB) to identify issues related to the aging of advanced materials and suggest accelerated evaluation approaches and analytical methods to characterize the durability of future aircraft materials and structures throughout their service lives. An NMAB study committee was established to (1) provide an overview of long-term exposure effects on future high-performance aircraft structures and materials; (2) recommend improvements to analytical methods and approaches to accelerate laboratory testing and analytical techniques to characterize and predict material responses to likely aircraft operating environments; and (3) identify research needed to develop and verify the required testing, predictive analytical capabilities, and evaluation criteria.
The committee chose to examine the issues of long-term aging of materials and structures by examining candidates being considered for use on a future High-Speed Civil Transport as a case study.
The committee hosted a Workshop on Long-Term Aging of Materials and Structures, which was held at the National Academy of Sciences on August 10–12, 1994. Workshop attendees included representatives from industry, government, and academia. The results of this workshop served as an important resource for the preparation of the committee 's report.
Comments and suggestions that readers of this report wish to make can be sent via Internet electronic mail to nmab@nas.edu or by FAX to the National Materials Advisory Board (202) 334-3718.
Edgar A. Starke, Jr., Chair
Committee on Evaluation of Long-Term Aging of Materials and Structures Using Accelerated Test Methods
Figures and Tables
FIGURES
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External structural temperature during cruise for the Concorde, |
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Structural temperature for a typical flight of the Concorde, |
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Predicted equilibrium skin temperatures for a Mach 2.2 and Mach 2.4 HSCT, |
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Comparison of HSCT and subsonic engine duty cycle for comparable 5,000 nm flights, |
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3-1 |
Tensile yield strength at room temperature versus exposure temperature for several ingot metallurgy 2XXX alloys and X8019 after 1,000 hours exposure, |
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Fracture toughness versus tensile yield strength for (a) X8019 products and several ingot metallurgy alloys and (b) X8019 products and several moderately elevated-temperature ingot metallurgy 2XXX alloys, |
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(a) Fracture toughness and (b) elastic modulus of candidate titanium alloys as a function of normalized strength (strength/density), |
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Fracture toughness versus tensile yield strength for sheet from an experimental Al-Cu-Mg-Mn-Ag alloy in the T8-type temper and after 1,000 hours at 135 °C (275 °F), |
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4-2 |
Creep strain versus time for 2519-T87 products having varying grain sizes, tested at 175 °C (347 °F) under an initial stress of 20 ksi, |
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4-3 |
Effect of grain size on a variety of mechanical properties for nickel-based superalloys, |
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Schematic of transverse matrix cracks in a cross-plied composite laminate, |
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Normalized axial modulus of [0,902]s graphite/epoxy laminate as a function of transverse crack density, |
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4-6 |
Progression of oxidative degradation zone in a carbon/bismaleimide composite, |
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Schematic of composite laminate moisture profile and micrograph of surface-matrix cracking: (1) initial moisture load; (2) moisture profile after hygrothermal cycles, |
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4-8 |
Major types of corrosive attack and degradation as an approximate function of reciprocal temperature (Ptotal = Poxidant), |
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5-1 |
Relative creep strength of candidate alloys for the Concorde, |
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5-2 |
Deformation mechanism maps for 316 stainless steel after exposure for (a) 3 years and (b) 30 years, |
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5-3 |
Creep crack growth behavior of Cr-Mo and Cr-Mo-V base materials, |
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5-4 |
Comparison between creep crack growth and creep-fatigue crack growth data in terms of Ct, |
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Schematic showing use of the Arrhenius expression for describing a reaction or property degradation rate, |
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5-6 |
Room-temperature tensile yield strength as a function of exposure time at various temperatures for 2618-T651 extrusions, |
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5-7 |
Plot of ln (1/t) versus 1/T for 2618-T651 extrusions overaged to 50, 40, 30, and 20 ksi, |
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5-8 |
Stress for 0.1 percent creep strain as a function of time at various temperatures for 2618-T651 extrusions, |
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Plot of ln (1/t) versus 1/T for 2618-T651 extrusions overaged to 30 ksi, crept to 0.1 percent, 0.5 percent, or rupture, |
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Variation of room-temperature flexural strength with exposure time at elevated temperatures, |
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Correlation of room-temperature strength after various exposure times and temperatures at 760 torr, |
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Damage progression of matrix cracking in a laminate versus number of cycles, |
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Recommended general approach to characterization of aging of materials and structures, |
TABLES