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Investigation Of Rcf Life Of Hollow Components For Additive Manufacturing, Subodh Chandra Subedi

Theses and Dissertations

Advancements in manufacturing and material technology has redefined the approach of design for machine components. Additive manufacturing processes have enabled designers to manufacture for design and functionality. With Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) approach, components can be manufactured with holes in them, including rolling contact components. These hollow components save material, weight, have shorter manufacturing lead times and possibly a higher rolling contact fatigue resistance. Hollowness is defined as the volume percentage of intentional void in load carrying member. Finite element analysis is performed to obtain compressive and tensile stresses on rings and square plates with centric holes in them. …