Fatigue fracture of a main landing gear swinging lever in a civil aircraft

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 755-765

  Bagnoli, F ^a   Dolce, F ^a   Colavita, M ^a   Bernabei, M ^a  

^a Centro Sperimentale Volo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Damage tolerance; Failure analysis; Fatigue failure; Finite element analysis; Landing gear

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACKS; DAMAGE TOLERANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; METALLOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACES;

ABNORMAL SILICON CONCENTRATION; CIVIL AIRCRAFT; LEFT-HAND MAIN LANDING GEAR (LH-MLG);

LANDING GEAR (AIRCRAFT);

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACKS; DAMAGE TOLERANCE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; LANDING GEAR (AIRCRAFT); METALLOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACES;

EID: 40949097427     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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