| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10415551 | Engineering Failure Analysis | 2005 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines the case of unexpected fatigue crack detection in a fleet of military aircraft and proposes a technique to determine the mean life of the failures and/or appropriate inspection intervals. Use is made of the Frost and Dugdale relation, that suggest that as a first approximation a linear relationship exists between the natural log of the crack length or depth and the service history (number of cycles) for a large number of practical cases.
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Authors
L. Molent, R. Singh, J. Woolsey,