25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-4.1.2


FATIGUE INITIATION AND CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOUR IN GLARE FROM THE AIRBUS MEGALINER BARREL TEST

R. J. H. Wanhill, T. Hattenberg, P. H. de Haan
NLR, Netherlands

Keywords: fatigue,crack growth, fractography, GLARE

Fractographic analysis was used to determine fatigue crack "initiation" lives and crack growth behaviour in a GLARE window area from the Airbus A380 MegaLiner Barrel test.


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