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V. Venkatesh et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 60 (2024) 372–381 V Venkatesh et al. / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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Fig. 1. (a) Control rod showing fracture at swash plate end, (b) spherical bearing assembly of the eye-end at the swash plate end, and (c-d) damages on the bearing housing inner surface at locations marked 'A' and 'B' respectively in (a).

Fig. 2. (a) Damages on the outer surface of the bearing race at the swashplate end corresponding to the location marked 'A' in Fig.1(c), (b) bearing surface, (c) Bearing at the bell crank end of the control rod, and (d) ball surface.