A Survey of Aeronautical Structural Research in Australia,

Abstract

A survey of Aeronautical structural research in Australia has spanned over more than 40 years, from the establishment of the C.S.I.R. Division of Aeronautics in 1939. Industry, civil aviation and the armed services have benefited from the expertise of Structures Division in problem solving, as well as from ad-hoc research and, perhaps less immediately, from basic research. Not every avenue has been able to be explored. A major subject of research, structural fatigue, arose from an accident in 1945, and each new development in design and material has brought new problems. Standards of safety and risk have been explored. New technology of fibre composites permits better tailoring of strength and stiffness to requirements: this and the introduction to aircraft of active controls offer benefits and problems for the future. Additional keywords: aeronautical laboratories; aerospace engineering; aircraft structures; metal fatigue; ultra high Strength steels; Structural analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA157211

Entities

People

  • F. H. Hooke

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Australia
  • Civil Aviation
  • Composite Materials
  • Control Systems
  • Engineers
  • Ferrium
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Spars
  • Structural Analysis
  • Tensile Strength

Readers

  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space