EXPERIMENTS ON THE FATIGUE FAILURE OF A REDUNDANT STRUCTURE.

Abstract

Multiple load path redundant structures have been utilized in 'fail-safe' design applications for a considerable length of time without a thorough investigation into the statistical nature of their failure. Experiments conducted at the Institute for the Study of Fatigue and Reliability of Columbia University on a model ten-member redundant structure subjected to constant amplitude loads have been analyzed and the statistical distribution of consecutive failures was determined. The experimental results are compared with various theoretical computations which were found to be conservative. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0474264

Entities

People

  • R. A. Heller
  • R. C. Donat

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Computations
  • Data Science
  • Fail Safe
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Reliability
  • Statistical Distributions
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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