Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures
Learning from history is, by popular account, something at which human beings are not particularly good; George Bernard Shaw having stated that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”, while the Spanish philosopher George Santayana apparently claimed that “those who cannot learn...
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| description | Learning from history is, by popular account, something at which human beings are not particularly
good; George Bernard Shaw having stated that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”,
while the Spanish philosopher George Santayana apparently claimed that “those who cannot learn from history
are doomed to repeat it”.1 This is certainly true in the field of structural integrity where, some 150 years after
the first full-scale structural fatigue tests were carried out, fracture-safe and fatigue-reliable design can be
achieved to a statistical probability in complex and sophisticated structures, such as aircraft. Alongside this,
however, failures of large, and expensive, welded structures can still occur from such simple causes as
inadequate communication, and lack of awareness of the importance of the design of structural details to the
overall fatigue life and failure. This paper considers several examples of such difficulties in the context of the
development of fatigue design philosophies and the success or otherwise of learning from the history of
failures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d01a6789c96f4d038c450e78012ab8b42025-01-03T00:27:31ZengGruppo Italiano FratturaFracture and Structural Integrity1971-89931971-89932014-10-0183029330310.3221/IGF-ESIS.30.36Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable StructuresM. N. James0University of Plymouth, School of Marine Science & EngineeringLearning from history is, by popular account, something at which human beings are not particularly good; George Bernard Shaw having stated that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”, while the Spanish philosopher George Santayana apparently claimed that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.1 This is certainly true in the field of structural integrity where, some 150 years after the first full-scale structural fatigue tests were carried out, fracture-safe and fatigue-reliable design can be achieved to a statistical probability in complex and sophisticated structures, such as aircraft. Alongside this, however, failures of large, and expensive, welded structures can still occur from such simple causes as inadequate communication, and lack of awareness of the importance of the design of structural details to the overall fatigue life and failure. This paper considers several examples of such difficulties in the context of the development of fatigue design philosophies and the success or otherwise of learning from the history of failures.http://www.gruppofrattura.it/pdf/rivista/numero30/numero_30_art_36.pdfStructural failureFatigue-reliableFracture-safe |
| spellingShingle | M. N. James Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures Fracture and Structural Integrity Structural failure Fatigue-reliable Fracture-safe |
| title | Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures |
| title_full | Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures |
| title_fullStr | Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures |
| title_short | Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures |
| title_sort | fracture safe and fatigue reliable structures |
| topic | Structural failure Fatigue-reliable Fracture-safe |
| url | http://www.gruppofrattura.it/pdf/rivista/numero30/numero_30_art_36.pdf |
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