Structural analysis of the right rear lug of American Airlines Flight 587

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-30

  Raju, I S ^a   Glaessgen, E H ^a   Mason, B H ^a   Krishnamurthy, T ^a   Davila, C G ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AIRBUS CERTIFICATION TEST; LAYERED-SHELL TYPE MODELING; PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSES (PFA); RIGHT REAR LUG;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 36448975835     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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