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A Method for Determining the “Safe” Life of an Aircraft Wing From Fatigue Test Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. P. Kennedy
A. P. Kennedy*
Affiliation:
Air Registration Board
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It is now the usual practice in Great Britain to estimate the “ safe ” life of an aircraft wing from fatigue tests which are carried out on specimens representing the more highly stressed portions of the tension boom or booms. Such tests are designed to produce a tensile load in the boom equal to that produced in steady flight, and superimposed on this, a small fluctuating load corresponding to that which would be produced by an up gust immediately followed by a down gust of the same magnitude.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 521 , May 1954 , pp. 361 - 366
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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