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Structural Safety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. G. Pugsley
A. G. Pugsley*
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University of Bristol
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The present preoccupation of aircraft designers and users with fatigue problems, brought to a head by the Comet disasters, has rendered the notion of the finite life of an aeroplane a commonplace to the man in the street, and has made the assessment of probabilities of failure and the collection of statistics regarding loads and structural properties a matter of detailed concern for all designers. This was not always so. In 1939, when Fairthorne and I essayed a first paper on airworthiness statistics it received practically no attention and publication was delayed for years until after the 1939–45 War. Even in 1942, an exploratory “ Philosophy of Aeroplane Strength ” brought smiles to the faces of practical designers rather than the real interest that the “new slant,” as some said, of its probability approach raised in a few scientists.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 59 , Issue 534 , June 1955 , pp. 415 - 431
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1955

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