The ICAF presentation is more than just the slides, but the message is the same as the ASIP presentation. Let me know if you have any questions or remarks.
For military aircraft, bonded composite repairs have been used widely to repair fatigue cracks. A good overview of examples and methods can be found in the books by Baker and Jones, “ADVANCES IN THE BONDED COMPOSITE REPAIR OF METALLIC AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE”...
A while ago there was a discussion regarding the severity of dents, thread2-37793. The discussion was very helpful when I started my project. The new component in this project was that we not only looked at the effect of dents on fatigue, but also looked at static stability of dented stiffened...
Thanks for your reply Oexen. Unfortunately I don’t have access to Airbus manuals. I am very interested in what they have written down, do you know how I could possibly get access to these sections? I know the Airbus approach is focussed on fatigue. Another of our concerns is that static...
This thread is exactly what I needed to solve some problems. I am currently doing some research into why certain dent allowable limits are used. Apparently Airbus has a method listed in their SRM that allows you to evaluate the severity of the dents and how it will affect the remaining life of...
