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Residual Strength And Fatigue Characterization Of Scs-6/Ti-6-4, Sang-Myung Lee Dec 1996

Residual Strength And Fatigue Characterization Of Scs-6/Ti-6-4, Sang-Myung Lee

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Metal matrix composite have potential in a variety of aerospace applications, but they should be better understood before they can be employed. Despite the many studies that have contributed to characterizing the fatigue response of titanium alloy MMCs, few have researched the residual strength. The purpose of this study was to investigate the residual strength and the frequency effects on the residual strength of an unidirectional laminate of SCS-6/Ti-6-4, a titanium alloy matrix based composite under tension-tension, load-controlled conditions at elevated temperatures and different frequencies. Specimens were fatigued at frequencies of 1 and 0.01Hz, and at maximum stress of 900MPa …