Fail-Safe Aircraft Structures: Proceedings of the ICAF Symposium (7th), Held at London, on 18-20 July 1973. Volume 1.

Abstract

Contents: Fatigue life of structural components under random loading; Fail-safe philosophy--an introduction to the symposium; Interrelated aspects of service safety arising from consideration of safe-life, fail-safe, manufacturing quality and maintenance procedures; The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar fatigue and fail-safe development program; Investigation of the fail-safe properties of civil aircraft; Airworthiness philosophy developed from full-scale testing; A unified technology plan for fatigue and fracture design; Effect of mean stress on crack propagation under random loading; The prediction of fatigue crack propagation under service load-time histories.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0778546

Entities

People

  • A. M. Stagg

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airworthiness
  • Crack Propagation
  • Cracks
  • Fail Safe
  • Fatigue Life
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Structure
  • Philosophy
  • Safety
  • Structural Components
  • Transport Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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