Does anyone know of published A-basis allowables for 7075-T6 per WW-T-700/7 ? This material is not listed in the AR-MMPDS-01 (MIL-HDBK-5J).
A vendor has made parts from the above material instead of 7075-T6511 per QQ-A-200/11 as required. Because of lead time issues, we have been asked to...
I have a non-structural application on a 747-400 aircraft where manufacturing has asked us to use 1100-F "A" rivets in place of the 2117-T3 "AD" rivets currently on our drawing.
My Boeing Liaison Engineering handbook from my days at Boeing says (on page 60.2.2) "Avoid using 5056 or 1100F rivets...
William F. McCombs, one of the coauthors of the 1965/1973 Bruhn book, has published a new book titled "Engineering Column Analysis - The Analysis of Compression Members." I just received it this week, so this is not a real review, but its content looks very similar in style and quality to the...
Many of you are familiar with the book "Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures" by E. F. Bruhn, which was published in 1965 and revised in 1973. William F. McCombs, one of the coauthors of that book, published a 110-page supplement in 1998, and that supplement has been mentioned here...
