4.7 Article Proceedings Paper

Fatigue fracture of a nose landing gear in a military transport aircraft

Journal

ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 474-479

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2004.12.025

Keywords

landing gear; fatigue failure

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This paper analyses the rupture of a nose landing gear of a military transport aircraft collapsed during take-off procedure. Examining the fracture surface, it was observed that the failure was due to growth of fatigue crack. Beach marks followed by a final fast fracture surface due to overload were observed. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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