Why are airplanes so safe structurally? Effect of various safety measures on structural safety of aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1255-1268

  Kale, Amit ^a,c   Acar, Erdem ^a,c   Haftka, Raphael T ^a,c   Stroud, W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Dept of Mech and Aerosp Eng ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION TESTS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; SAFETY MEASURES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ERRORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 16244405267     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, 6-10 April 2003, Norfolk Virginia.
2. Oberkampf, W.L., Deland, S.M., Rutherford, B.M., Diegert, K.V., and Alvin, K.F., "Estimation of Total Uncertainty in Modeling and Simulation," Sandia Report SAND2000-0824, 2000.