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NASA NTRS1977

Fretting of AISI 9310 and selected fretting resistant surface treatments

Fretting wear experiments were conducted with uncoated AISI 9310 mating surfaces, and with combinations incorporating a selected coating to one of the mating surfaces. Wear measurements and SEM observations indicated that surface fatigue, as made evident by spallation and surface crack formation, is an important mechanism in promoting fretting wear to uncoated 9310. Increasing humidity resulted in accelerated fretting, and a very noticeable difference in nature of the fretting debris. Of the coatings evaluated, aluminum bronze with a polyester additive was most effective at reducing wear and minimizing fretting damage to the mating uncoated surface, by means of a selflubricating film that developed on the fretting surfaces. Chromium plate performed as an effective protective coating, itself resisting fretting and not accelerating damage to the uncoated surface.

Bill, R. C.↗
NASA NTRS1977

Fretting of AISI 9310 and selected fretting resistant surface treatments

Fretting wear experiments were conducted with uncoated AISI 9310 mating surfaces, and with combinations incorporating a selected coating to one of the mating surfaces. Wear measurements and SEM observations indicated that surface fatigue, as made evident by spallation and surface crack formation, is an important mechanism in promoting fretting wear to uncoated 9310. Increasing humidity resulted in accelerated fretting, and a very noticeable difference in nature of the fretting debris. Of the coatings evaluated, alumimum bronze with a polyester additive was most effective at reducing wear and minimizing fretting damage to the mating uncoated surface, by means of a self-lubricating film that developed on the fretting surfaces. Chromium plate performed as an effective protective coating, itself resisting fretting and not accelerating damage to the uncoated surface.

Bill, R. C.↗
NASA NTRS1994

The role of fretting corrosion and fretting fatigue in aircraft rivet hole cracking

Personnel in the Quality and Integrity Design Engineering Center (QIDEC) at the University of Utah are working under a two year grant from the FAA to better understand the role of fretting corrosion and fretting fatigue in aircraft rivet hole cracking. The current program follows a one year grant program which was completed in 1993. This paper provides a status report on the results of these grant programs. Recent effort has been focused on developing basic fretting fatigue models which consider variation in the coefficient of friction with time and location within the fretting interface. This is a very important characteristic of the QIDEC model because coefficient of friction varies significantly during the fretting fatigue process. Copies of QIDEC documents discussed in this paper can be obtained by contacting the authors.

Elliott, Charles B., III↗
DOE OSTI2021

Grid-to-rod fretting wear study of SiC/SiC composite accident-tolerant fuel claddings using an autoclave fretting bench test

Grid-to-rod-fretting (GTRF) in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) is known to cause wear and surface damage on the fuel claddings, potentially leading to radioactive leakage. One of the accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) concepts is to use advanced cladding materials that could withstand higher temperatures. Here, we investigated the wear behavior of candidate silicon carbide (SiC)-based composite claddings with different levels of surface finish in fretting against a commercial ZIRLO alloy grid using a unique bench-scale autoclave GTRF rig. The experiments mimicked the environment in an industrial full-assembly PWR simulator. Fretting tests were conducted with a realistic load (~0.5 N) in deionized water under a pressure of 20–23 bar at 204 °C for 100 h. While the SiC/SiC composite claddings showed significantly higher wear resistance than the commercial ZIRLO alloy cladding as expected, the smoother versions experienced surprisingly higher wear than the much softer counterface, ZIRLO grid. The wear mechanism of the SiC/SiC cladding was attributed to the SiC wear debris that was trapped at the fretting interface causing both 3-body and 2-body (embedded into the grid surface) abrasion of the cladding. Rougher SiC/SiC claddings had less material loss but caused more wear on the ZIRLO grid. Finally, pre-oxidized ZIRLO grid showed better compatibility with the SiC/SiC cladding to protect both the cladding and grid as a result of reduced wear debris trapping.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2021

ABEL-FRET: tether-free single-molecule FRET with hydrodynamic profiling

Raw Data related to the manuscript: "ABEL-FRET: tether-free single-molecule FRET with hydrodynamic profiling". Contains the following files: ReadMe.txt - a quick introduction to the upload; ABEL-FRET-data-format-exampleCode.docx - a detailed description of the data format, and description of two Example code files included in RawDataForZenodo.zip; RawDataForZenodo.zip - the raw data and example code files arranged in folders (one folder per experiment) and an additional folder for the example code files.

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES↗
NASA NTRS2001

Evaluation of Ti-48Al-2Nb Under Fretting Conditions

An investigation was conducted to examine the fretting behavior of lambda-TiAl (Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb) in contact with a nickel-base superalloy (Inconel 718) in air at temperatures from 23 to 550 C. Fretting wear experiments were conducted with 9.4-mm-diameter hemispherical Inconel (IN) 718 pins in contact with Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb flats (and the reverse) at loads from 1 to 40 N and fretting frequencies from 50 to 160 Hz with slip amplitudes from 50 to 200 microns for 1 to 20 million fretting cycles. The results were similar for both combinations of pin and flat. Reference fretting wear experiments were also conducted with 9.4-mm-diameter hemispherical Ti-6Al-4V pins in contact with IN718 flats. The interfacial adhesive bonds between Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb and IN718 in contact were generally stronger than the cohesive bonds in the cohesively weaker Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb. The failed Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb subsequently transferred to the IN718 surface at any fretting condition. The wear scars produced on Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb contained metallic and oxide wear debris, scratches, plastically deformed asperities, cracks, and fracture pits. Oxide layers readily formed on the Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb surface at 550 C, but cracks easily occurred in the oxide layers. Factors including fretting frequency, temperature, slip amplitude, and load influenced the fretting behavior of Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb in contact with IN718. The wear volume loss of Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb generally decreased with increasing fretting frequency. The increasing rate of oxidation at elevated temperatures up to 200 C led to a drop in wear volume loss at 200 C. However, the fretting wear increased as the temperature was increased from 200 to 550 C. The highest temperatures of 450 and 550 C resulted in oxide film disruption with generation of cracks, loose wear debris, and pits on the Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb wear surface. The wear volume loss generally increased as the slip amplitude increased. The wear volume loss also generally increased as the load increased. Increasing slip amplitude and increasing load both tended to produce more metallic wear debris, causing severe abrasive wear in the contacting metals.

Miyoshi, Kazuhisa↗
DOE OSTI2020

Fluorogenic aptamers resolve the flexibility of RNA junctions using orientation-dependent FRET

To further understand the transcriptome, new tools capable of measuring folding, interactions, and localization of RNA are needed. Although Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is an angle- and distance-dependent phenomenon, the majority of FRET measurements have been used to report distances, by assuming rotationally averaged donor–acceptor pairs. Angle-dependent FRET measurements have proven challenging for nucleic acids due to the difficulties in incorporating fluorophores rigidly into local substructures in a biocompatible manner. Fluorescence turn-on RNA aptamers are genetically encodable tags that appear to rigidly confine their cognate fluorophores, and thus have the potential to report angular-resolved FRET. In this work, we use the fluorescent aptamers Broccoli and Mango-III as donor and acceptor, respectively, to measure the angular dependence of FRET. Joining the two fluorescent aptamers by a helix of variable length allowed systematic rotation of the acceptor fluorophore relative to the donor. FRET oscillated in a sinusoidal manner as a function of helix length, consistent with simulated data generated from models of oriented fluorophores separated by an inflexible helix. Analysis of the orientation dependence of FRET allowed us to demonstrate structural rigidification of the NiCo riboswitch upon transition metal-ion binding. This application of fluorescence turn-on aptamers opens the way to improved structural interpretation of ensemble and single-molecule FRET measurements of RNA.

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Capturing and Analyzing Requirements with FRET

FRET is an open source tool, developed at NASA Ames, for writing, understanding, formalizing, and analyzing requirements. In practice, requirements are typically written in natural language, which is ambiguous and consequently not amenable to formal analysis. Since formal, mathematical notations are unintuitive, requirements in FRET are entered in a restricted, natural language, called FRETish with precise unambiguous meaning. FRET helps users write FRETish requirements both by providing grammar information and examples during editing, but also through English and diagrammatic explanations to clarify subtle semantic issues. For each requirement, FRET automatically produces formalizations and supports interactive simulation of produced formalizations to ensure that they capture user intentions. Through its analysis portal, FRET connects to analysis tools by exporting verification code. Currently FRET connects to (1) the CoCoSim automated analysis tool for the verification of Simulink and Stateflow models, and (2) the Copilot runtime monitoring tool for the analysis of C programs. FRET also supports the consistency/realizability analysis of requirements for identifying conflicting requirements. In this tutorial, we introduce FRET and learn to speak and analyze FRETish through several examples.

FRET↗
NASA NTRS1978

Influence of fretting on flexural fatigue of 304 stainless steel and mild steel

Fretting fatigue experiments conducted on 304 stainless steel using a flexural fatigue test arrangement with bolted on fretting pads demonstrated that fatigue life is reduced by at least a factor of 10 in the 265 to 334 MPa (38,500 - to 48,500 psi) nominal flexural fatigue stress range. In addition, experiments in which the fretting pads were removed after selected numbers of cycles, followed by continued flexural fatigue without fretting show that continued fretting beyond 50,000 cycles does not significantly further reduce fatigue life of 304 stainless steel at 317 MPa (46,000 psi). Microscopic examination of the fretted contact areas revealed fracture initiation sites as well as numerous cracks that did not propagate to failure. Flexural fretting fatigue experiments performed on mild steel showed an insensitivity of fatigue life to the incidence of fretting under flexural stress conditions of from 162 to 217 MPa (23,500 to 31,500 psi).

Bill, R. C.↗
NASA NTRS2000

Fretting Stresses in Single Crystal Superalloy Turbine Blade Attachments

Single crystal nickel base superalloy turbine blades are being utilized in rocket engine turbopumps and turbine engines because of their superior creep, stress rupture, melt resistance and thermomechanical fatigue capabilities over polycrystalline alloys. Currently the most widely used single crystal nickel base turbine blade superalloys are PWA 1480/1493 and PWA 1484. These alloys play an important role in commercial, military and space propulsion systems. High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) induced failures in aircraft gas turbine and rocket engine turbopump blades is a pervasive problem. Blade attachment regions are prone to fretting fatigue failures. Single crystal nickel base superalloy turbine blades are especially prone to fretting damage because the subsurface shear stresses induced by fretting action at the attachment regions can result in crystallographic initiation and crack growth along octahedral planes. Furthermore, crystallographic crack growth on octahedral planes under fretting induced mixed mode loading can be an order of magnitude faster than under pure mode I loading. This paper presents contact stress evaluation in the attachment region for single crystal turbine blades used in the NASA alternate Advanced High Pressure Fuel Turbo Pump (HPFTP/AT) for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). Single crystal materials have highly orthotropic properties making the position of the crystal lattice relative to the part geometry a significant factor in the overall analysis. Blades and the attachment region are modeled using a large-scale 3D finite element (FE) model capable of accounting for contact friction, material orthotrophy, and variation in primary and secondary crystal orientation. Contact stress analysis in the blade attachment regions is presented as a function of coefficient of friction and primary and secondary crystal orientation, Stress results are used to discuss fretting fatigue failure analysis of SSME blades. Attachment stresses are seen to reach peak values at locations where fretting cracks have been observed. Fretting stresses at the attachment region are seen to vary significantly as a function of crystal orientation. Attempts to adapt techniques used for estimating fatigue life in the airfoil region, for life calculations in the attachment region, are presented. An effective model for predicting crystallographic crack initiation under mixed mode loading is required for life prediction under fretting action.

Arakere, Nagaraj K.↗
NASA NTRS2005

Prediction of Fretting Crack Location and Orientation in a Single Crystal Nickel Alloy

Fretting is a structural damage mechanism arising between two nominally clamped surfaces subjected to an oscillatory loading. A critical location for fretting induced damage has been identified at the blade/disk and blade/damper interfaces of gas turbine engine turbomachinery and space propulsion components. The high- temperature, high-frequency loading environment seen by these components lead to severe stress gradients at the edge-of-contact that could potentially foster crack growth leading to component failure. These contact stresses drive crack nucleation in fretting and are very sensitive to the geometry of the contacting bodies, the contact loads, materials, temperature, and contact surface tribology (friction). Recently, a high-frequency, high-temperature load frame has been designed for experimentally investigating fretting damage of single crystal nickel materials employed in aircraft and spacecraft turbomachinery. A modeling method for characterizing the fretting stresses of the spherical fretting contact stress behavior in this experiment is developed and described. The calculated fretting stresses for a series of experiments are then correlated to the observed fretting damage. Results show that knowledge of the normal stresses and resolved shear stresses on each crystal plane can aid in predicting crack locations and orientations.

Matlik, J. F.↗
NASA NTRS2002

Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb Evaluated Under Fretting Conditions

Material parameters govern many of the design decisions in any engineering task. When two materials are in contact and microscopically small, relative motions (either vibratory or creeping) occur, and fretting fatigue can result. Fretting fatigue is a material response influenced by the materials in contact as well as by such variables as loading and vibratory conditions. Fretting produces fresh, clean interacting surfaces and induces adhesion, galling, and wear in the contact zone. Time, money, and materials are unnecessarily wasted when galling and wear result in excessive fretting fatigue that leads to poorly performing, unreliable mechanical systems. Fretting fatigue is a complex problem of significant interest to aircraft engine manufacturers. It can occur in a variety of engine components. Numerous approaches, depending on the component and the operating conditions, have been taken to address the fretting problems. The components of interest in this investigation were the low-pressure turbine blades and disks. The blades in this case were titanium aluminide, Ti-48Al-2Cr- 2Nb, and the disk was a nickel-base superalloy, Inconel 718 (IN 718). A concern for these airfoils is the fretting in fitted interfaces at the dovetail where the blade and disk are connected. Careful design can reduce fretting in most cases, but not completely eliminate it, because the airfoils frequently have a skewed (angled) blade-disk dovetail attachment, which leads to a complex stress state. Furthermore, the local stress state becomes more complex when the influence of the metal-metal contact and the edge of contact are considered.

Miyoshi, Kazuhisa↗
NASA NTRS1997

ETP-0474: Evaluation of Electroless Nickel Coatings to Achieve Interference Fit in the RSRM Without Fretting

Part of the redesign of the SRMs for the Space Shuttle involved the substitution of three new capture cylinders for three of the previously used cylinders. These new cylinders mate with the old standard case segments in each of the three field joints. The new capture cylinders contain an integral capture latch on the tang end which mates with a case clevis during stackup at KSC. The capture cylinders also contain a groove in the capture latch to provide for a third 0-ring in the joint and are designed to achieve a metal-to- metal interference fit between the capture latch and the mating clevis. An unexpected fretting problem has occurred on the tang capture feature and the inner clevis leg interference fit surfaces on flight hardware since STS-26. Varying degrees of fretting damage have been found on the case segments from different flight motors. Fretting is a wear phenomena that occurs when two tightly fitting metal surfaces are subject to cyclic relative motion of extremely small amplitudes (generally less than 0.010-inch) in the absence of adequate lubrication. It is adhesive ("cold" - welding) in nature and vibration is its essential causative factor. This problem has manifested itself on the flight motors as a series of pits and axial gouges on the inside diameter (ID) surfaces of the inner clevis legs and the outside diameter (OD) surfaces of the tang capture features. The problem occurs in varying degrees of severity in all of the field joints. It is not believed that fretting is a flight safety issue. However, it could become a reusability issue if left unattended. Fretting has been encountered in other industries for many years and measures that will prevent or reduce it have been devised. These include: elimination or reduction of vibration (amplitudes and/or frequencies), elimination of slip, improved lubrication between parts, increased surface separation, increased interference, inducing residual compressive stresses in the surfaces of the mating parts, and employing non-fretting interference shims. Looking at each of these separately; vibration and slip occur in varying degrees and magnitudes in the field joints (as part of the roll-out, launch, flight, splashdown, flotation, and/or tow back) and are difficult to define or eliminate. Improved lubrication is something that was evaluated since it would be the simplest change to incorporate, but little or no improvement was found. Increasing surface separation would defeat the purpose of the interference fit. The effect of increasing the interference fit is unknown. Additional shot peening and/or surface rolling to impart residual compressive stresses in the joints undoubtedly would alter the characteristics and finish of the sealing surfaces of the motor cases. Also, experimental data' indicate that the tangs and clevises already have residual compressive stress fields on their surfaces yet fretting occurs. These stresses probably result from the case machining and the glass beading used to clean these surfaces.

Schaffnit, William O.↗
DOE OSTI2021

The fluorescence quantum yield parameter in Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)—Meaning, misperception, and molecular design

The fluorescence quantum yield parameter in Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) processes underpins vital phenomena ranging from light harvesting in photosynthesis to design of sensors for monitoring physiological processes. The criteria for choosing a donor for use in FRET processes include chemical features (solubility, bioconjugatability, synthetic accessibility, and stability) as well as photophysical properties pertaining to absorption (wavelength and molar absorption coefficient) and fluorescence (wavelength and fluorescence quantum yield). The value of the donor fluorescence quantum yield (Φf, or emphatically, Φf(D)) alone has sometimes been thought (erroneously) to place a ceiling on the possible quantum yield of energy transfer (Φtrans). A high value of the donor Φf, while attractive, is not at all essential; indeed, many valuable candidates for use as FRET donors have likely been excluded on the basis of this injudiciously applied filter. Such disregard is unwarranted. In this tutorial overview, the equations for FRET are reviewed along with pertinent core concepts in photophysics. An analogy using simple hydraulics provides a pedagogical tool for the non-aficionado to better understand photochemical kinetics. Ten examples are presented of donor–acceptor systems with donors that exhibit a range of Φf values (0.60, 0.59. 0.21, 0.17, 0.12, 0.118, 0.04, 0.018, 0.007, and 0.003; i.e., 60%–0.3%), yet for each corresponding donor–acceptor pair, the value of Φtrans is at least 0.70 and in some cases nearly 1.00 (i.e., 70%–100%). The systems encompass protein, synthetic inorganic, and synthetic organic architectures. The objectives of this illustrative review are to deepen understanding of FRET and to broaden molecular design considerations by enabling selection from among a far richer set of donors for use in FRET processes.

Lindsey, Jonathan S. (ORCID:0000000248722040)↗
NASA NTRS1975

Fretting of titanium at temperatures to 650 C in air

Fretting wear experiments were conducted on high-purity titanium at temperatures up to 650 C. Results indicate that up to about 500 C, the fretting wear increases with temperature. A further increase in the temperature up to 650 C results in decreasing fretting wear. This change in trend of fretting wear with temperature is shown to be associated with a change in oxidation rate. Additional experiments at 650 C showed a transmission from a low rate of fretting wear to a higher rate occurred after exposure to a number of fretting cycles; the number of cycles required to cause this transition was dependent on the normal load. Scanning electron microscopy studies revealed that this transition was marked by cracking and disruption of the surface oxide film. A model was proposed that coupled the oxidation rate kinetics of titanium at 650 C with the occurrence of wear at the surface of the oxide film.

Bill, R. C.↗
NASA NTRS1978

Fretting wear of iron, nickel, and titanium under varied environmental conditions

Fretting wear experiments were conducted on high purity iron, nickel and titanium in air under conditions of varied humidity and temperature, and in nitrogen. For iron and titanium, maximum fretting occurred at 10 and 30 percent relative humidity respectively. Nickel showed a minimum in fretting wear at about 10 percent relative humidity. With increasing temperature, all three metals initially showed reduced fretting wear, with increasing wear observed as temperatures increased beyond 200-300 C. For titanium, dramatically reduced fretting wear was observed at temperatures above 500 C, relatable to a change in oxidation kinetics. All three metals showed much less fretting wear in N2 with the presence of moisture in N2 having a proportionally stronger effect than in air.

Bill, R. C.↗
NASA NTRS1979

Fretting wear of iron, nickel, and titanium under varied environmental conditions

Fretting wear experiments were conducted on high-purity iron, nickel and titanium in air under conditions of varied humidity and temperature, and in nitrogen. For iron and titanium, maximum fretting occurred at 10 and 30 percent relative humidity respectively. Nickel showed a minimum in fretting wear at about 10% relative humidity. With increasing temperature, all three metals initially showed reduced fretting wear, with increasing wear observed as temperatures increased beyond 200-300 C. For titanium, dramatically reduced fretting wear was observed at temperatures above 500 C, relatable to a change in oxidation kinetics. All three metals showed much less fretting wear in N2 with the presence of moisture in N2 having a proportionally stronger effect than in air.

Bill, R. C.↗