A review of Australian and New Zealand investigations on aeronautical fatigue during the period April 1993 to March 1995 /

A review of Australian and New Zealand investigations on aeronautical fatigue during the period April 1993 to March 1995 /

A review is given of the aircraft fatigue research and associated activities which form part of the programs of the Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory, Universities, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Defence Scientific Establishment, New Zealand. The review summarises fatigue-related r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grandage, J. M.
Corporate Authors: Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia), Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory (Australia)
Other Authors: Jost, G. S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Melbourne, Vic. : DSTO Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory, 1995.
Series:Technical note (Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia)) ; DSTO-TN-0002.
Subjects:
Airframes > Fatigue.
Airframes > Fatigue > Research > Australia.
Airframes > Fatigue > Research > New Zealand.
Table of Contents:
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Fatigue programs on military aircraft
  • 9.2.1. F/A-18 fatigue investigations
  • 9.2.2. F-111 fatigue investigations
  • 9.2.3. Macchi MB-326H fatigue investigations
  • 9.3.4. Pilatus PC-9/A fatigue test
  • 9.2.5. Repair of fatigue cracking in wing skins of Lockheed C-141 aircraft
  • 9.3.5. Helicopter structural fatigue
  • 9.3. Fatigue of civil aircraft
  • 9.3.1. Piper Navajo and Chieftain Splice plates
  • 9.3.2. Nord 298/262 fin and tailplane
  • 9.3.3. Bell 214ST tailboom cracking
  • 9.3.4. Cessna 441 fuselage frames
  • 9.3.5. Bell 206 landing gear
  • 9.3.6. GFRP glider wing fatigue test
  • 9.3.7. Fatigue life assessment of the IS28B2 sailplane
  • 9.4. Fatigue-related research programs
  • 9.4.1. Crack-tip strain determinations
  • 9.4.2. Determination of stress intensity factors from crack-tip displacement fields
  • 9.4.3. Fatigue crack growth model for short cracks based on crack closure
  • 9.4.4. Secondary bending in joints
  • 9.4.5. Fatigue resistant holes
  • 9.4.6. Composite-to-metal mechanical joints
  • 9.4.7. Analysis of bonded inserts for improving the fatigue life of holes
  • 9.4.8. Time- or cycle-dependent crack bridging
  • 9.4.9. Evolution structural optimisation
  • 9.4.10. Bonded composite repair of metallic aircraft components
  • 9.4.11. Fatigue of joints representative of bonded repairs to aircraft
  • 9.4.12. Rapid repair methods for aircraft battle damage
  • 9.4.13. Durability of postbuckling stiffened fibre composite shear panels
  • 9.4.14. Assessment of flaw severity from fractography
  • 9.4.15. Improved NDE of discrete and distributed damage
  • 9.4.16. NDE of corrosion
  • 9.4.17. Quantification of hidden corrosion
  • 9.4.18. Materials technology for through-life support of propulsion systems
  • 9.5. Review of aeronautical fatigue investigations in New Zealand
  • 9.5.1. Andover C Mk. 1
  • 9.5.2. P-3K Orion
  • 9.5.3. Aermacchi MB339CB
  • 9.5.4. Fatigue analysis
  • 9.5.5. Structural data recorder
  • 9.5.6. A-4K Skyhawk
  • 9.6 references
  • figures
  • distribution
  • document control data./ñ,̂

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