Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 28 Issue 12

Fatigue Down Under

ONCE again fatigue comes up for discussion. In this issue we have a paper surveying Australian work on the subject, and a report on the London session of the I.Mech.E. and…

Australian Work on Aircraft Fatigue and Life Evaluation: A Historical Review of Australian Research in Structural Fatigue and Life Assessment of Aircraft

F.H. Hooke, P.S. Langford

Fatigue of aircraft structures has become a major subject for research in the past ten years and the importance of establishing safe lifetimes for operation of aircraft or for…

A Programme for Low Aspect Ratio Wing Analysis: A Digital Computer Programme to Analyse the Structure of a Low Aspect Ratio Wing

J.P. Morton

AN important factor in the design of a modern high speed aircraft is the time taken to carry out an analysis of the wing structure. The modern tendency is to design wings which…

The Creep Deflexion of Magnesium Alloy Struts: A Report on Research into the Properties of Magnesium Alloy Struts at Room Temperature

A.E. Johnson, V.D. Mathur, J. Henderson

This work was undertaken to examine the possibility of predicting the creep deflexion of magnesium alloy struts from tensile creep data. Creep deflexion tests on magnesium alloy…

The Buckling of Tapered Plates in Compression: Compressive Buckling under Varying Loading of Simply Supported Plates Simultaneously Tapered in Plan Form and in Thickness

Bertram Klein

A simple matric formulation is developed for calculating the elastic buckling of a class of simply supported flat plates that arc simultaneously tapered in plan form and in…

International Conference on Fatigue of Metals: A Report on the Joint Institution of Mechanical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers London Conference

Tibor Haas

THIS Conference, the largest ever arranged on the subject of fatigue of metals, was sponsored by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in co‐operation with The American Society…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…

The Library Shelf

J.M.N., J.T., J.H.

Dr‐Myklestad is to be congratulated on a first‐class book on vibration analysis. No doubt intended primarily as a text‐book on the subject, the book will also prove of great use…

Month in the Patent Office

The honeycomb core of a sandwich panel structure consists of bent metal strips a with flat‐topped orrugations, the strips being relatively offset so that only parts f of the flat…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In propulsion apparatus having a combustion chamber with an open‐discharge nozzle at its outer end, in combination, a substantially spherical chamber wall for said combustion…