Fatigue crack growth history in damage tolerance design of aircraft structures

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1062-1067

  Siegl, Jan ^a   Nedbal, Ivan ^a   Kunz, Jiří ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aircraft components; Crack growth rate; Fractographic reconstitution of fatigue crack growth; Quantitative fractography

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE DAMAGE; FATIGUE TESTING; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS; AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE PARTS; AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES; BEACH MARKS; COMPLEX PROGRAMS; CONSTANT AMPLITUDE LOADINGS; CRACK GROWTH RATE; DETECTABILITY; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATES; FATIGUE PROCESS; FRACTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; FRACTOGRAPHIC FEATURES; FRACTOGRAPHIC METHODS; FRACTOGRAPHIC RECONSTITUTION OF FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FRACTURE SURFACE MORPHOLOGIES; FULL-SCALE FATIGUE TESTS; QUANTITATIVE FRACTOGRAPHY; RELIABLE OPERATIONS; SERVICE CONDITIONS; VARIABLE LOADINGS;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 62549098571     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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