PSI - Issue 38

Christophe Grosjean et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 38 (2022) 94–108 C.Grosjean and al. / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2021) 000 – 000

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Contact condition between parts

Pressure load

Fig. 9. (a) Contact condition. (b)Pressure in hydraulic block (in red).

Following FE calculation, possible failure areas were identified as shown in Fig. 10. Some areas are in compression (the blue one: under -550MPa) and some in tension (the red one: above 550 MPa). Only these areas in tension referenced A to G (critical locations) are labelled.

Fig. 10. Possible failure area identified following FEA