Fatigue Life Prediction for Aircraft Structures and Materials

Abstract

;Contents: Aspects of aeronautical fatigue; Methods of stress- measurement analysis for fatigue life evaluation; The use of counting accelerometer data in fatigue life predictions for aircraft flying in complex roles; The use of fracture mechanics principles in the design and analysis of damage tolerant aircraft structures; Corrosion fatigue - or - how to replace the full-scale fatigue test; On fatigue analysis and testing for the design of the airframe; A rational analytic theory of fatigue - revisited; A summary of crack growth prediction techniques; The R.Ae.S. - ESDU cumulative damage hypothesis; Fatigue life prediction - a somewhat optimistic view of the problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0762718

Entities

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Cracks
  • Drug Abuse
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Spars
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Tensile Strength
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.