Monitoring load experience of individual aircraft

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...

Re-assessment of service life by comparative specimen tests

The paper starts with a general discussion on various aspects of life re-assessment. Specific attention is paid to the possibility of re-assesgrnent by means of comparative fatigue tests on specimens. As an illustration of this method, the paper gives a description of the life-re-assessment procedures applied by the Royal Netherlands Airforce...