Stress and Strain Estimation of Notches in Aircraft Structures

Abstract

To maintain the continued airworthiness of military aircraft it is essential that the fatigue behavior of components subjected to complex multi-axial stress conditions be both understood and predicted. This topic is extremely complex. Numerous fatigue failure criteria ranging from the purely empirical to the theoretical have been proposed. These criteria rely on the estimation of stress and strain at fatigue critical locations. This interim report focused on possible approaches which may be applicable to both low and high-cycle fatigue regimes. It discusses the relative advantages of the Neuber and the Glinka methods for calculating localized notch strains as compared to the results from finite element analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA360599

Entities

People

  • Jonathan H. V. Price
  • L. Molent
  • M. Knapp
  • R. Jason Jones

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fatigue Life
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Fracture (Mechanics)
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Military Aircraft
  • Stress Concentration
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Stresses
  • Structural Components
  • Yield Strength

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.