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Fatigue Response Of Cracked Aluminum Panel With Partially Bonded Composite Patch, Jason J. Denney
Fatigue Response Of Cracked Aluminum Panel With Partially Bonded Composite Patch, Jason J. Denney
Theses and Dissertations
More and more aircraft, both commercial and military, are being called upon to fly well beyond their economic and structural service lives. Budget cuts and dwindling new aircraft development has forced the United States Air Force (USAF) to look toward more reliable structural repairs. One of these repair techniques, which was the subject of this study, is the repair of metallic aircraft structures using high strength composite materials. This study investigated the fatigue response of a precracked, 508x1 52x1 mm, 2024-T3 aluminum panel repaired with a partially bonded, unidirectional, three-ply boron/epoxy composite reinforcement with ply lengths of 68, 56 and …
Investigation Of Residual Strength And Fatigue Life Of Unstiffened Aluminum Panels With Multiple Site Damage, Mark C. Cherry
Investigation Of Residual Strength And Fatigue Life Of Unstiffened Aluminum Panels With Multiple Site Damage, Mark C. Cherry
Theses and Dissertations
Multiple Site Damage MSD is the occurrence of small fatigue cracks at several sites within aircraft structures. This is important since it may lower the residual strength and fatigue life of the structure beyond what can be predicted using the damage tolerance technique based on a single crack, currently in use to design aircraft structures. This study investigated the effects of MSD on unstiffined panels. MSD usually occurs at rivet holes, or other stress concentration locations within an aircraft structure. This study simulated rivet holes with MSD, by using holes of constant diameter with small cracks, evenly spaced across the …