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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2012.36.10.1181

Fatigue Test and Evaluation of Landing Gear  

Lee, Sang-Wook (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Lee, Seung-Gyu (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Shin, Jeong-Woo (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, Tae-Uk (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, Sung-Chan (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Hwang, In-Hee (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Lee, Je-Dong (Agency for Defense Development)
Publication Information
Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.36, no.10, 2012 , pp. 1181-1187 More about this Journal
Abstract
For the fatigue design of aircraft landing gear, the safe-life approach is applied. Structural defects such as cracks or detrimental deformations should not occur under the fatigue load spectrum depicting the entire lifetime usage of the aircraft. In the design phase, the fatigue life of the landing gear is estimated analytically by adopting the stress-based approach because the fatigue of aircraft landing gear is generally high-cycle fatigue. This utilizes S-N curves that are factored to produce design curves that account for the scatter and surface finish of the material. In the test and evaluation phases, a fatigue test should be conducted for full-scale landing gear to substantiate the fatigue design requirement in the end. In this study, the procedure for the fatigue test and evaluation of aircraft landing gear is presented with real application cases.
Keywords
Fatigue; Landing Gear; Safe-Life; Fatigue Test;
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