Fatigue Life Assessment for an Aluminum Alloy Piston Using Stress Gradient Approach Described in the FKM Method

Subject Areas : Engineering

H Ashouri ¹

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran

Received: 2021-09-06 Accepted : 2021-12-08 Published : 2022-03-30

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