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Old 14th Oct 2017, 17:39
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The thrust loads across a fan disk are insignificant to the loads caused by spinning.

Vibratory stresses are typically way below any measurable contribution to the tangential stresses in a fan disk.

The materials used in the fan disk and the design stresses are very resistant to crack growth in a few cycles.

Whatever happened is likely way outside simple assumptions.

When you design a bolt flange attachment in a high stress area you have to avoid concentrating stress fields around only a few bolt holes. You do this by adding extra holes (typically not used) to smooth out the stress field thus avoiding fatigue fatigue cracking from these holes.
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