Info on Fracture Mechanics
Info on Fracture Mechanics
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Does anyone have info/requirements/data on Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue/Damage Tolerance specifically in Aircraft.
Books, articles (preferably available on the Net) and websites, etc.
Amongst others I am trying to find the MSG3 document.
Books, articles (preferably available on the Net) and websites, etc.
Amongst others I am trying to find the MSG3 document.





RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
The various papers and articles by Tom Swift give an excellent picture of fracture mechanics and damage tolerance in airframes. I can send you a list of titles if you wish.
Try the website of Willis and Kaplan Inc. They have good on-line papers on DT analysis.
Broek also has an article on DT analysis in Volume 19 of the Metals Handbook, published by the ASM.
I hope that this is useful.
Andries
RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
the oficial gude in damage tolerance in aircraft structures is the Advisory Circular 25.571-1C. You can find it at WWW.faa.gov
RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
Could you also send me a list of documents or titles to do with damage tolerance analysis.
Cheers
RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
I have checked the website of Willis & Kaplan, Inc., but have failed to find any online papers on damage tolerance. Could you give me the exact details on how to find these papers and any other literature.
Also how would I acess Broke's article on DT analysis in Volume 19 of the Metals Handbook, published by the ASM.
Thanks
RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
I also have a couple of FAA guidline documents re. DTA. These are not available online, but I can email them to you if you like. They were writen by key people in the Seattle Aircraft Certification Office and the LA Aircraft Certification Office.
http://aar400.tc.faa.gov/Programs/AgingAircraft/Commuter/RAPID/
Nigel Waterhouse
n_a_waterhouse@hotmail.com
A licensed aircraft mechanic and graduate engineer. Attended university in England and graduated in 1996. Currenty,living in British Columbia,Canada, working as a design engineer responsible for aircraft mods and STC's.
RE: Info on Fracture Mechanics
It appears that Willis & Kaplan have recently dissolved their company.
Kaplan now works at Armstrong Aerospace, but they have no articles on damage tolerance.
This company's website is info@armstrongaerospace.com
There is however still a good article by Kaplan on CASA aircraft landing gear DT analysis at the following site:
http://www.aviationtoday.com/reports/CASA.htm
I checked it out on 17 March 2003 and it is well worth downloading.
As regards the Metals Handdbook, the full title is:
ASM Handbook
Volume 19
Fatigue and Fracture
Published by ASM International.
(ASM stands for the American Society of Metals)
This series should be available at university libraries or libraries of technical or scientific organisations.
Since I could fall foul of copyright laws I unfortunately cannot make a copy of the relevant section written by Broek.
Regards
Andries