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Airframe Structural Design Overview

The document discusses the structural design of modern aircraft airframes. It outlines key design requirements, including withstanding high speeds, hail, lightning, and corrosion over 15-20 years of service. The design process involves specifying functional requirements and design criteria, determining basic external loads, and calculating internal element loads. Aircraft design and certification involves laboratory testing, establishing design specifications based on criteria and loads, designing the airplane, flight testing, and certification testing to obtain regulatory approval.

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Airframe Structural Design Overview

The document discusses the structural design of modern aircraft airframes. It outlines key design requirements, including withstanding high speeds, hail, lightning, and corrosion over 15-20 years of service. The design process involves specifying functional requirements and design criteria, determining basic external loads, and calculating internal element loads. Aircraft design and certification involves laboratory testing, establishing design specifications based on criteria and loads, designing the airplane, flight testing, and certification testing to obtain regulatory approval.

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Airframe

structural
design

Theoretical approach

Chapter 1: General Information


Introduction
Development progress
Planning and structural weight
Computer Aid

1.1 Introduction
Design Requirements of Modern Aircraft
Clear Aerodynamic shapes for long range flights for subsonic/supersonic speeds
Wings to open up like parachutes at very low speeds
Wing to support as fuel tanks and engine support structures
Structures must withstand hail and lightning strikes
Corrosive resistant to all climates
Structure must be serviceable from 15 to 20 years with minimum maintenance
and still be light enough to be economically stable.
The design must be innovative with new materials to produce state of art.
New technologies must be introduced to speed up newer processes.

1.2 Development progress


Static and ultimate yield strength
Fatigue life of airframe
Static residual strength of damaged structure
Fatigue life of damaged structure
Thermal stress analysis and design of supersonic
aircraft

Phases of Structural Design

Specification of
Function and
Design criteria

Determination
of basic
external
applied loads

Determination
of allowable
strength and
margin of
safety

Calculation of
internal
element loads

Experimental
demonstration
or substantial
test program

Airplane Design Development


and Certification
Laboratory
developme
nt test
data
Design
specificati
on

Design
criteria

Basic
loads

Airplane
design

Flight test
data

Certificati
on test
program

Approved
type
program

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