Journal of Aeronautical Engineering

Journal of Aeronautical Engineering

Experimental study of fatigue behavior of 7075 aluminum used in aircraft structures due to aging

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Shahid Sattari University of Aeronautical Sciences and Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Graduate Education Center, Shahid Sattari University of Aeronautical Sciences and Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 PhD student, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/joae.2025.499904.1265
Abstract
The aging of aircraft is one of the most important problems in the evaluation of their airworthiness.In the structural area, fatigue behavior after years of service of aircraft is of particular importance. Therefore, this article deals with this issue. To evaluate the effect of aging on fatigue behavior, samples of the structures of several worn-out warplanes were prepared and static tensile and fatigue tests were performed on them. To evaluate the results, similar experiments were performed on the used raw materials. In this study, the fatigue behavior was performed on a 7075 aluminum alloy sheet isolated from the fuselage of the phantom aircraft with different thicknesses as well as a sample of raw aluminum alloy sheets. A total of 8 samples were tested for fatigue. Also in this research microstructure of Al-7075 alloy has been investigated and it is also characterized using Optical Microscope, SEM. The results obtained for the naturally precipitation hardened alloy showed that in metallography images, coarse precipitates can be observed. The results of the fatigue test on these samples showed a longer service life compared to the raw sample, which is consistent with the results obtained in other papers worked on this alloy.
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Volume 27, Issue 2
November 2025
Pages 49-62

  • Receive Date 14 January 2025
  • Revise Date 19 February 2025
  • Accept Date 28 March 2025