Fatigue Failure of Hydroformed AISI 316L Stainless Steel Bellows

Sushant Manwatkar; S.V.S. Narayana Murty; P. Ramesh Narayanan

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.830-831.713

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Fatigue Failure of Hydroformed AISI 316L Stainless Steel Bellows

Abstract:

Austenitic stainless steel AISI 316L is used for components of cryogenic engine in satellite launch vehicles due to its better mechanical properties at low temperatures. In one such application, AISI 316L stainless steel bellows are used in electro-pneumatic command valve of a cryogenic engine. This valve employs a hydro-formed bellow of 0.14mm thickness as an actuator element. When one of the electro-pneumatic command valve was vibrated without pressure, crack was noticed at the inner diameter of the bellow. Detailed metallurgical analysis indicated that the cracking to be due to fatigue.