J.W. Lincoln

For the pasf thirty-five years the United States Air Force has used the USAF Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) to maintain safe and economical operation of aging aircraft. This program has been supported over the years by Air Force laboratory programs in the areas of fracture mechanics, corrosion prevention, flight loads, nondestructive evaluation, human factors, and maintenance and repair. These efforts provided the Air Force with the technology required to support the operational aircraft maintenance programs based on damage tolerance. The Federal Aviation Authority in the United States has also focused much of their attention on aging aircraft issues in the commercial fleet of aircraft. There are close parallels between the military and commercial approaches for damage tolerance derived inspection programs. There has also been a mutual need to develop the capability to estimate the time of onset of widespread fatigue damage that could degrade the damage tolerance capability of aircraft. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the USAF research and development programs in aging aircraft and to identify the technology areas where the USAF and the FAA are cooperating to find solutions to current problems.

5th International Conference on Structural Airworthiness of New and Aging Aircraft, Hamburg, 1993

Conference Paper

englisch

21,0 x 29,7 cm, 5 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 1993, 1993-02, 5th International Conference on Structural Airworthiness of New and Aging Aircraft - Proceedings; S.169-173; 1993; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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structural fatigue

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1993