Probabilistic Surface Damage Tolerance Assessment of Aircraft Turbine Rotors

This paper describes some of the new surface damage capabilities in DARWIN™, a probabilistic fracture mechanics software code developed to evaluate the risk of fracture associated with aircraft jet engine titanium rotors/disks. An initial framework is presented in which a graphical user interface (GUI) is used to explicitly define the stresses and temperatures at the crack location for several crack geometries. A summary of the approach used to develop new stress intensity factor solutions for these geometries is also presented, including selected validation results.Copyright © 2003 by ASME

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