QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURAL DESIGN CRITERIA BY STATISTICAL METHODS. VOLUME 1. A CRITIQUE OF PRESENT AND PROPOSED APPROACHES TO STRUCTURAL DESIGN CRITERIA

Abstract

Exploratory research, needed to develop quantitative structural design criteria for aerospace vehicles, has been conducted to relate the probabilistic nature of design, operational, and environmental experiences to the structural performance of aerospace vehicles. This design criteria is predicated on the concept of structural reliability. Volume I presents a critique of present and proposed approaches to structural design criteria. Volume II presents recommendations for a deterministic structural design criteria procedure based on statistical methods. This is a new procedure intended to overcome the problems associated with other structural design criteria procedures. The new procedure is demonstrated on the F-100 airplane by comparing the output of the computer program with actual service records. Volume III formulates two computer programs for the procedure and presents user's instructions for the programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0839441

Entities

People

  • D. J. Trent
  • Innes Bouton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineers
  • Export Controls
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Spacecraft
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space