Failure analysis of the combat jet aircraft rudder shaft

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1998-2007

  Trifkovic, Dragan ^a   Stupar, Slobodan ^b   Bosnjak, Srdjan ^b   Milovancevic, Milorad ^b   Krstic, Branimir ^a   Rajic, Zoran ^c   Dunjic, Momcilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Military Technical Institute   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aircraft failures; Failure analysis; Finite element analysis; Shafts

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FAILURES; AIRCRAFT RUDDER; BEACH MARKS; CORROSION PITS; CORROSION-RESISTANT; FLIGHT MISSION; HIGH STRESS CONCENTRATION; HINGE MOMENT; INNER SURFACES; LONGITUDINAL CRACKS; MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES; RIVET HOLE; SHAFTS; STRESS STATE; ULTIMATE LOADS; WALL THICKNESS;

CORROSION FATIGUE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JET AIRCRAFT; PITTING; RIVETS; RUDDERS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054749413     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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