Print Email Facebook Twitter Correlation of Mission Type to Cyclic Loading as a Basis for Agile Military Aircraft Asset Management Title Correlation of Mission Type to Cyclic Loading as a Basis for Agile Military Aircraft Asset Management Author Newcamp, Jeffrey (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Verhagen, W.J.C. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Curran, R. (TU Delft Air Transport & Operations) Date 2016 Abstract Military attack aircraft are susceptible to the harmful effects of widespread fatigue damage caused by cyclic loading of structural components, which leads to airframe retirement. Modern structural health monitoring techniques use a multitude of sensors and high data collection rates. Some legacy airframes, which are most susceptible to fatigue damage due to their age, possess a counting accelerometer technology with few sensors and low data capture rates. The data provided by these 40-year old devices are crucial to understanding fleet health and can be used to extend structural lifetime for aging aircraft. Existing literature has addressed counting accelerometer usefulness, but a profound three-decade gap in research has led to a chasm between the current wealth of available data and tool development for utilizing those data. This research uses 11 years of A-10 Thunderbolt II counting accelerometer data to prove that mission type, mission duration and aircraft type correlate to aircraft loading patterns. It is shown that a mission type model can therefore influence fleet management strategies and the structural lifetime extension for aging aircraft Subject Military aircraftMission typeStructural lifetimeAccelerometer To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ebeeacb1-5a54-445c-9b8c-b9dcee48f02c DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2016.05.022 Embargo date 2018-12-31 ISSN 1270-9638 Source Aerospace Science and Technology, 55, 111–119 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 Jeffrey Newcamp, W.J.C. Verhagen, R. Curran Files PDF Newcamp_Aerospace_Science ... ournal.pdf 1.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ebeeacb1-5a54-445c-9b8c-b9dcee48f02c/datastream/OBJ/view