Evolution of U.S. Military Aircraft Structures Technology

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Paul ◽  
L. Kelly ◽  
V. Venkayya ◽  
Thomas Hess
Keyword(s):  
Military Aircraft ◽  
Aircraft Structures

The evolution of U.S. military aircraft structures technology

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Paul ◽  
Thomas Hess ◽  
Edward Kautz
Keyword(s):  
Military Aircraft ◽  
Aircraft Structures

The reliability of inspection techniques in relation to damage tolerant design

1988 ◽  
Vol 92 (911) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. W. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Nondestructive Testing ◽  
Military Aircraft ◽  
Aircraft Structures ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Damage Tolerant ◽  
Inspection Techniques

This paper is concerned especially with the reliability of inspection in the nondestructive testing of military aircraft structures. The first part considers design philosophies, examines how the requirements for inspection arise and highlights the difference between the approaches being adopted in the USA and in the UK. The second part examines what data are already available on the reliability of inspection and discusses the UK programmes that are aimed at gathering more data.

A Brief History of Structural Fatigue Testing at Fishermans Bend Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 106-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrie Molent
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Testing ◽  
Military Aircraft ◽  
Aircraft Structures ◽  
Structural Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Of Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historic Paper ◽  
Fatigue Failures

This paper presents a brief history of fatigue research at the Fishermans Bend Australia Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) facility from the early days in the 1940s when Mr. H.A. Wills, Head of the then Structures Division, foresaw with remarkable insight the emerging danger of fatigue in aircraft structures. He presented a historic paper at the Second International Aeronautical Conference in 1949 and instituted a comprehensive programme of research on the fatigue of materials and structures which proved to be invaluable within the next decade as fatigue failures began to plague first civil and then military aircraft fleets worldwide. DSTO is still amongst the world leaders on the fatigue of aircraft structures, as many of these research programmes have won international recognition and as fatigue investigations expeditiously undertaken for the RAAF (and at times civil regulators) have supplied valuable information to the aircraft manufacturers, operators and researchers.

Achievements of Military Aircraft

1913 ◽  
Vol 108 (14) ◽  
pp. 306-307
Author(s):  
H. Bannerman-Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Military Aircraft

A Method to Describe the Process of Shaping Operational Effectiveness of Military Aircraft – An Outline

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Henryk Tomaszek ◽  
Ryszard Kaleta ◽  
Mariusz Zieja
Keyword(s):  
Support Function ◽  
Military Aircraft ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Correct Operation ◽  
Operation And Maintenance

Abstract The paper deals with the process of shaping the operational effectiveness of military aircraft under some specific circumstances, i.e. while flying on missions. The term ‘effectiveness’ has been assumed to mean the probability of accomplishing an air mission by one of the aeronautical system’s components, i.e. the aircraft together with its pilot. There is a chance to improve the effectiveness, or make it worse, in subsequent flights, depending on how the maintenance support function. The correct operation and maintenance of the system’s components should provide that the following condition is satisfied: * Pk ≥ P , where Pk - effectiveness in the k-th flight, and P* - the lower demanded limit of effectiveness. The Authors drew their inspiration for this paper from publication [2].

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