27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-P3.7

A STUDY OF THE METHOD FOR CALCULATING FATIGUE DAMAGE OF AIRCRAFT BY USING RECORDED LOAD FACTORS

Z. Wang, Y. Y. Wang
Beijing Aeronautical Technology Research Center, China

Keywords: fatigue damage, aircraft load, fatigue calculation , structural life monitoring

A method for calculating fatigue damage of aircraft is presented in this paper. Through a systematical calculation, by using 35000 hours of flight data recorded from two types of aircraft, each consisting 30 aircraft, it has been proven that this method is a powerful tool to monitor aircraft fatigue damage.

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