Effects of structural tests on aircraft safety

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2235-2248

  Acar, Erdem ^a,b   Haftka, Raphael T ^a,c   Kim, Nam H ^a,c  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL FLIGHT; AIRCRAFT SAFETY; BAYESIAN UPDATING; CERTIFICATION TESTS; COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; COUPON TESTS; DETERMINISTIC DESIGN; FAILURE CRITERIA; FAILURE STRESS; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; FINITE NUMBER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILISTIC DESIGN; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RESPONSE SURFACE APPROXIMATION; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL FAILURE; STRUCTURAL TESTS; TEST RESULTS; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; TSAI-WU;

AVIATION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY; TEST FACILITIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 78649628073     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050202     Document Type: Article

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