Controlled Creation of Contact Cracks in Additive Manufactured Components

Techniques for the controlled seeding and growth of cracks are urgently required for non-destructive testing technique evaluation, particularly for additive manufactured (AM) samples. This paper describes a method that uses a combination of the tensile load and the resonance excitation of notched AM...

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Main Authors: Daniel Preston, Ahmed Ashour, Julian Wright, James Watts, Daniel Sanmartin, Jacques Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/21/11990