Factors of Safety, Historical Development, State of the Art and Future Outlook

Abstract

The concept of the factors of structural safety presently applied to the design of fixed-wing aircraft can be traced back some 50 years. The last decades have brought about rapid progress in establishing aerodynamic derivatives, defining load conditions and predicting structural loads as well as enabling more detailed analyses for stress and deformation to be made. The lack of a rational basis for the factors of safety together with the progress made brought about a discussion of changing the concept and the factors involved. The three pilot papers contained in this report address the different aspects which are envisaged, and show up inconsistencies of the present concept as well as means and methods for possible changes and examples of the outcome. An additional paper summarizes what is going on in the field of civil engineering with respect to structural safety.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049380

Entities

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Engineers
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Reliability
  • Safety Engineering
  • Standards
  • Structural Analysis
  • Structural Loads
  • Tensile Strength
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

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  • Systems Analysis and Design