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Oldersma, A. (author), Wanhill, R.J.H. (author)Discussions between D-BAA and the NLR have shown that significant variability in fatigue crack growth properties is possible for the industry standard damage tolerant aluminium alloy, 2024-T3 sheet. This is important for two reasons: (1) design assumptions and (2) comparisons of different candidate materials, such as 6013-T6, with 2024-T3....report 1996
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Wanhill, R.J.H. (author)This paper reviews currently available information on corrosion and fatigue in aircraft as a background to discussing the assessment of corrosion and fatigue damage. The main topics are: - aircraft operating environments and loads - corrosion - fatigue - corrosion and fatigue - corrosion and fatigue damage assessment. Aircraft structures are...report 1995
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Wanhill, R.J.H. (author)This report reviews currently available information on corrosion and fatigue in aircraft as a background to discussing the assessment of corrosion and fatigue damage. The main topics are: * aircraft operating environments and loads * corrosion * fatigue * corrosion and fatigue * corrosion and fatigue damage assessment. Aircraft structures are...report 1994
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Wanhill, R.J.H. (author)This report contains the overhead sheets of a short course on fatigue and fracture of aerospace aluminium alloys, plus an annex in the form of a review paper.report 1994
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Lameris, J. (author)In the full scale durability and damage tolerance tests of composite aircraft structures, the US and European certification requirements demand among other things that the number of cycles applied are statistically significant and that the influence of the environment has been taken into account. Several certification methods are described which...report 1990
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Schra, L. (author), Faber, J. (author)An experimental investigation was carried out into the applicability of various corrosive environments for stress corrosion crack propagation testing of high strength aluminium alloys using double cantilever beam specimens. Testing under atmospheric conditions was used as a reference. It was found that stress corrosion crack growth under...report 1981
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Lameris, J. (author)Fracture toughness measurements were carried out to test the ageing behaviour of three adhesives in different environments. It was possible to compare and evaluate adhesives and surface pretreatments. It is doubtful whether the derived R-curves could be used for residual strength calculations in certain environments. Phosphoric acid anodizing...report 1978
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Wanhill, R.J.H. (author)Flight simulation fatigue crack propagation tests with gust spectrum loading were carried out on 2024-T3/carbon-epoxy, 7475-T76l/carbon-epoxy and Ti-6Al-4V/carbon-epoxy laminates with nominal weight savings of -30% as compared to equivalent 2024-T3 panels. The performance of the 2024-T3/carbon-epoxy laminates was much superior to those of the...report 1978
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Schijve, J. (author), Jacobs, F.A. (author), Tromp, P.J. (author)Flight-simulation tests based on a standardized gust load spectrum were carried out in normal air, very dry air and salt water. Specimen thicknesses were t = 2 mm and t = 10 mm, mean stress in flight was 70 or 55 MN/m². In all cases a significant effect of the environment was found. Fatigue lives for t = 10 ram were much shorter than for t = 2...report 1976
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Hartman, A. (author)SEN specimens of 70T5 alloy loaded in bending have been used to determine time to failure and the crack propagation rate as a function of K, the stress intensity factor, and of the electrical potential in 3 wt % aqueous solutions of NaCl, NaBr and Nal with p values of 3 and 7. The SC tests were supplemented by potentio-kinetic polarization tests...report 1976