Advanced Damage Tolerance Analysis
1. Review of Mode I - III, Fracture Toughness, Beta
Factors, Residual Strength, Crack Growth Laws
2. Short Cracks, Aircraft Engine Implications, Inapplicability
of Paris' Law, da/dN Data for Small Cracks
3. Spectrum Generation, Fighter Aircraft Considerations,
Transport Category Aircraft, Trainers, Mission Mixes, Effects
of Truncation, Clipping, Packaged Spectra, Condensed Spectra
4. Advanced Fracture Mechanics Analyses Incorporating
Thermal Gradients and Residual Stresses, Interference Fit Fasteners,
Stop-drill Holes, Cold Expansion of Holes as a Fatigue Preventive,
Analysis and Measurement of Various Types of Residual Stresses,
Estimates of Relaxation
5. Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics, Chances of Missing
A Crack, Risk Assessments
6. Fail Safe Structures, Redundant Load Paths, Crack
Arrest, Skin-Stiffener Combinations, Analysis Data, Examples
7. Fractography, Failure Analysis
8. Advances in Damage Tolerance Techniques, FAA Airplane
Damage Tolerance Requirements, USAF Fighter and Transport Category
Requirements, Initial Flaw Assumptions, Refined Material Selection
Concepts, Determination of Inspection Requirements
9. Fracture Mechanics and Damage Tolerance Applied to
Aging Fleet, Corrosion Fatigue, SCC, Fretting Fatigue, Widespread
Fatigue Damage, Muti-site Damage
10. Composites Fracture Mechanics
