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High Entropy Alloys: Advance Material for Landing Gear Aerospace Applications

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The aircraft’s landing gear is an essential part of the land-air mobility mechanism. It is a system that is always subject to the power of the landing effect and the weight of the aircraft. Brake-induced vibration in the dynamics of the landing gear always leads to excessive wear of the parts of the landing gear. In the last two decades, the energy of brake construction has grown twofold. In the light of the literature, most aircraft axle failures have been associated with high cycle fatigue owing to braking and elevated impact landing loads, which lead to crack development. It is also shown to contribute greatly to the nucleation of tiredness crack pitting corrosion, which acts as a location for stress concentration. In crack propagation on aircraft wheels, the airplane vertical speed, runway friction coefficient, and elastic modulus of the asphalt play an important part. This paper is intended to provide a short analysis of the material view of high entropy alloy as an optimal replacement for conventional alloys that are vulnerable to the abovementioned problems for the future aviation safety of a landing system. In addition, it would be recommended to identify future breakthroughs to develop an adequately and efficiently designed high entropy alloy material for landing gear based on the most promised current findings in the sector.

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  1. Department of Chemical, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

    Ayodeji Ebenezer Afolabi & Abimbola Patricia I. Popoola

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    Olawale M. Popoola

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Afolabi, A.E., Popoola, A.P.I., Popoola, O.M. (2020). High Entropy Alloys: Advance Material for Landing Gear Aerospace Applications. In: Kharissova, O., MartĂ­nez, L., Kharisov, B. (eds) Handbook of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Energy and Environmental Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11155-7_179-1

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