Flight-by-flight fatigue crack growth life assessment

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 29, Issue 9-11, 2007, Pages 1647-1657

  Zhuang, W ^a   Barter, S ^a   Molent, L ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Fatigue crack growth; Life prediction; Quantitative fractography; Titanium alloys; Variable amplitude fatigue

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FRACTOGRAPHY; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

LIFE PREDICTION; LOAD INTERACTION EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE FRACTOGRAPHY; VARIABLE AMPLITUDE FATIGUE;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 34548024409     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2007.01.029     Document Type: Article

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