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stress decay distance for seal groove

stress decay distance for seal groove

stress decay distance for seal groove

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I have a thick wall, steel shell (cylinder) with two internal seal grooves.  These grooves are stress risers. Now the literature specifies a stress decay distance of k x square root of (R x t) for various types of discontinuities.  The value of k used varies from Pi/2 to Pi/4 to 1.0 to 0.5 and sometimes 1.1.  How does one select the appropriate value for k ?  I presume that it depends on the type of stress, but so far, I haven't been able to see a pattern.  Can anyone help with this?

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         Downeast Tech

DowneastTech
Mechanical Engineer
Magnus R & D, Cypress, TX

RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

The problem with the literature is that it never has exactly your case.

If you need to know, you gotta test it.

RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

or model it.

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RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

...or model it.  Except that I wouldn't trust an unverified model, so you've got to test anyway.

RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

p.s. if you have 2 O-ring grooves, be sure to vent in between so you don't get a "pressure trap" from thermal expansion etc.

RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

Oddly, I would, in this case since I see no practical way of correlating in detail, other than to compare the k from the book with the k from the model.

I'm assuming this is a fatigue problem, not statics.

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RE: stress decay distance for seal groove

Who are you using for a reference?
Peterson?

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