Effects of flight load spectrum variations on fatigue life of riveted specimens and crack propagation in sheet made of Alclad 7075-T6

Riveted specimens that are considered representative for F-27 type wing structure were subjected to comparative flight simululation test in which the gust load severity and Ground-Air-Ground cycle were systematically varied. The effect of these variations on crack propagation behaviour was studied by means of crack growth tests on 2 mm sheet...

Flight simulation fatigue crack propagation evaluation of candidate lower wing skin materials with particular consideration of spectrum truncation

Flight simulation fatigu-e crack propagation tests were carried out on 2024-T3, 7475-T761 and mill annealed Ti-6A1-4V sheet in thicknesses up to 3 miri and representative for transport aircraft lower wing skin stiffened panels of end load capacities 1.5 and 3 MN/m. The performance of 2024-T3 was much superior, owing mainly to greater retardation...