Advanced Metallic Structure: Air Superiority Fighter Wing Design for Improved Cost, Weight and Integrity. Volume 1

Abstract

The objective of this program was to reduce the weight of a fighter wing and carrythrough structure while maintaining its cost and life approximately equivalent to the baseline. Innovations in design concepts and application of new materials, manufacturing methods, and analysis techniques were to be expected. General tasks of the program were to provide for concept formulation, first iteration preliminary design, material property testing to support preliminary design, and preliminary planning and cost estimation of a separate follow-on program. An additional task, initiated several months after the basic go-ahead, was to consider the new Damage Tolerance criteria sensitivity and trade studies, utilizing the baseline structure materials and spectra, and by imposing 'USAF Damage Tolerance Criteria,' MIL-A-008866, dated 18 August 1972. Volume I contains the basic report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0781810

Entities

People

  • Fred A. Figge

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Air Superiority Fighters
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Damage
  • Damage Tolerance
  • Dynamics
  • Iterations
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Structure
  • Military Organizations
  • Research Facilities
  • Sensitivity
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.