Print Email Facebook Twitter Monitoring load experience of individual aircraft Title Monitoring load experience of individual aircraft Author de Jonge, J.B. Institution National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Date 1990-03-09 Abstract Paper presented at the 17th ICAS Congress, Stockholm, September 1990. The actual service load experience of aircraft may differ appreciably from design assumptions. The necessity to monitor service loads is generally recognized now for military aircraft. This paper starts with a general review of the overall life management procedure commonly used today. Specific elements in this procedure are discussed in some detail. Specific attention is paid to the amount of scatter in severity between different flights and the required sample sizes of flight load measurements for obtaining reliable average load spectrum data. Possible causes for variation in load experience between different aircraft flying the same duty are analysed. It is concluded that Individual Aircraft Tracking (lAT), if necessary at all, can usually be adequately accomplished by administrative means, indicated as Usage Monitoring. Subject fighter aircraftfatigue (materials)aircraft maneuverswing loadingdynamic loadsin-flight monitoringdata recordingservice lifetolerances (mechanics)damage assessment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b0c413a6-9f67-46c9-abd3-6a0c86958990 Publisher Delft University of Technology Access restriction Campus only Source NLR Technical Publication TP 90084 U Part of collection Aerospace Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c) 1990 National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Files PDF 90084.pdf 7.85 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b0c413a6-9f67-46c9-abd3-6a0c86958990/datastream/OBJ/view