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Fatigue Testing for Wind Turbines
Fatigue is the resistance of a material to fail during cyclical loading, and a material property crucial to the long-term reliability, safety and function of any wind turbine design.
Failure Analysis for Wind Components and Systems
Once a failure has occurred, our experienced materials engineers will determine if, and what kind of, fatigue, contributed to the failure.
Our team will guide you through the information, documentation, and sample collection process to provide the foundation for a successful failure investigation.
Using Failure Analysis Results for New Material Selections
Utilize Lucideon’s expertise and industry insight to efficiently select materials that will exhibit improved performance and are fit for the application, stresses and environment it will be used in.
Testing
Lucideon can validate that new materials are fit for use by performing cyclical fatigue testing through a range of stresses for a varying number of cycles.
Examples of fatigue investigations include:
- Fatigue of copper rotor lead tabs
- Fretting fatigue of bearings
- HCF and LCF of turbine blades
- Fatigue failures in bolts.
On Demand Webinars
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Hydrogen - Diffusion, Permeability, Hydride Formation and Metallic Embrittlement - Part 2
The growing use of hydrogen in the energy industry sets in motion a myriad of metallurgical issues and problems. The metallurgical community has long been dealing with problems associated with hydrogen interaction with metals; from containment in its liquid state at cryogenic temperatures to its burning as a fuel at high temperatures and everything in between. This is part two of a two-part webinar series that addresses some of the more complex metallurgical issues related to hydrogen..
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Hydrogen - Diffusion, Permeability, Hydride Formation and Metallic Embrittlement - Part 1
The growing use of hydrogen in the energy industry sets in motion a myriad of metallurgical issues and problems. The metallurgical community has long been dealing with problems associated with hydrogen interaction with metals; from containment in its liquid state at cryogenic temperatures to its burning as a fuel at high temperatures and everything in between. This is part one of a two-part webinar series that addresses some of the more complex metallurgical issues related to hydrogen.
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Cleaning Issues with Additive Manufactured Devices
While this general topic has been covered in various webinars in the past, here we isolate several key aspects of the problem. The unique porous coated surfaces of new additively manufactured (AM) medical implants have proven to be quite complex and are creating challenges with respect to effective cleaning.