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The methodology of fatigue lifetime prediction and validation based on accelerated reliability testing of the rotor pitch links
 
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Department of Manufacturing Engineering Transilvania University of Brasov B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036, Brasov, Romania
 
 
Publication date: 2019-12-31
 
 
Eksploatacja i Niezawodność – Maintenance and Reliability 2019;21(4):638-644
 
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Because the industrial products have lifetimes, without failing, of up to millions of cycles, it is mandatory that the aerospace field puts into practice the accelerated testing techniques. The lifetime prediction methodology for industrial products presented in this paper was put into practice by performing accelerated reliability testing on an aerospace product (the pitch link of a helicopter). The results showed a significant reduction of the testing time and costs. One important aspect highlighted in this paper is the equivalence between accelerated reliability testing and the traditional reliability testing, by using the two fundamental principles of the accelerated experiments: first, the stresses applied must not alter the physical mechanism through which the defects are produced and second, the conservation of the distribution laws of the failure times. In this way, by equivalence of the accelerated experiments, the methodology contained in this paper was validated.
 
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