A Method for Determining the “Safe” Life of an Aircraft Wing From Fatigue Test Results
- 1 May 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Vol. 58 (521) , 361-366
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0368393100106728
Abstract
It is now the usual practice in Great Britain to estimate the “ safe ” life of an aircraft wing from fatigue tests which are carried out on specimens representing the more highly stressed portions of the tension boom or booms. Such tests are designed to produce a tensile load in the boom equal to that produced in steady flight, and superimposed on this, a small fluctuating load corresponding to that which would be produced by an up gust immediately followed by a down gust of the same magnitude.Keywords
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- Fatigue Life of Wing Components for Civil AircraftJournal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1952