Abstract
This study concentrates on fatigue, residual strength and
non-destructive tests of an aging aircraft’s wing detail of the Finnish
Air Force’s Hawk Mk.51 jet trainer. The studied detail was the integral
stiffener with a drain hole near the wing root. Fatigue tests were
deemed necessary to verify experimentally the analytically observed
short fatigue life, significant crack growth rates and eventually to
re-assess the detail’s inspection period for the fleet jets. The results
of the study have been utilized e.g. at the complementary type approval
accomplished for the Finnish Air Force’s Hawk.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1089-1094 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | International Journal of Fatigue |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Event | International Conference on Damage Tolerance of Aircraft Structures, DTAS2007 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 25 Sept 2007 → 28 Sept 2007 |
Keywords
- jet trainer
- drain hole
- wing
- fatigue test
- residual strength test
- non-destructive test