The most consequential mechanical failures in transport aviation are often the ones which start as hairline cracks hidden ...

Inside the massive testing hangars across Seattle and Everett, the world's biggest jetliners are turned into mechanical lab rats. Hydraulic actuators yank their wings skyward, compressors simulate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The drive toward increased usage of light metal alloys in automotive structural applications creates new design challenges. In some cases ...

Fatigue analysis under random loading is a critical area of study that addresses the degradation of materials and structures exposed to unpredictable, cyclic stresses. Recent advancements have focused ...

A new fibre-metal laminate material is being promoted as an anti-fatigue technology for aircraft wings by its creators, the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology, Dutch structures specialist GTM ...

An overview of fatigue failure and how it affects mechanical systems. How FEA software enables engineers to predict fatigue failure points on structural designs, before the manufacturing process. From ...

Things don’t fall from the sky without a damn good reason. US lawyers Baum Hedlund, who specialize in litigation concerning transport accidents, lists human errors as the main reasons (53 percent) for ...

The crash of a UPS MD-11 freighter during takeoff from Louisville has rapidly shifted from a mystery to a focused hunt for ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus has ordered more frequent inspections of the wings of the world's largest passenger jet after discovering unexpected levels of metal fatigue during testing on an ...

Scientists from Hiroshima University undertook a study of dragonfly wings in order to better understand the relationship between a corrugated wing structure and vortex motions. They discovered that ...