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Programme Load Fatigue Tests: Evaluation of Aircraft Structural Joint Lives

R.J. Ryman A.M.I.Mech.E. (Mechanical Test Laboratory, The Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd., Coventry.)

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN: 0002-2667

Article publication date: 1 February 1962

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Abstract

This preliminary investigation has shown that the programme load method of testing provides more useful information than single load level tests enabling a more reliable estimate of a structural joint fatigue life to be obtained.

Citation

Ryman, R.J. (1962), "Programme Load Fatigue Tests: Evaluation of Aircraft Structural Joint Lives", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033516

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MCB UP Ltd

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