24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-5.4.5

FATIGUE MONITORING AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY IMPROVEMENT OF SMALL SPORT PLANES

T. Marczi, M. Ruzicka*, S. Slavik
Department of Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, Division of Aerospace Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic; *Department of Mechanics, Division of Strength of Materials, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Keywords: fatiguemeter, fatigue life, residual life, ’g’ spectrum, load spectrum

The paper is focused on the sport plane operation monitoring and evaluation of the measured operational load spectra. The part of the project is development methodology for in-time plane structure residual life evaluation. The methodology itself is implemented into the small data acquisition unit also called fatiguemeter.

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