Aircraft sustainment and repair

Aircraft Sustainment and Repair outlines the state of the art in aircraft sustainment: How to use quantitative fractography to determine the in-service crack length versus flight hours curve, how to use existing crack growth codes to determine the crack length versus flight hours curve and hence the remaining life and inspection intervals, the effect of intergranular cracking on structural integrity, the structural significance of corrosion, to illustrate the potential of composite repairs and SPD applications to metallic airframes to address problems associate with cracking, multi-site damage and wide spread fatigue damage, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking and intergranular cracking. To illustrate the ability of SPD to restore functionality.

• Fully covers corrosion damage assessment and management in aircraft structures
• Includes a key chapter on US developments in the emerging field of supersonic particle deposition (SPD)
• Shows how to design and assess the potential benefits of both bonded composite repairs and SPD repairs to metallic aircraft structures to meet the damage tolerance requirements inherent in FAA ac 20-107b and the US Joint Services