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TDA can provide corporate engineering courses (onsite at your location or at one of our offices) in the following areas. Please contact TDA at training@tda-i.com to learn more.

Fatigue, Damage Tolerance, and Risk Assessment of Aircraft Structures

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Topics covered include:
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Elastic and Inelastic Deformation of Metals
  • Selection of Materials and Design Strategies of Aircraft Components
  • Fatigue of materials: Crack Initiation
  • Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Crack Growth
  • Fatigue Spectra Development
  • Fatigue Testing and Analysis
  • Risk Analysis and Assessment of Aircraft Components
  • Aircraft Life Management and Structural Integrity
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    Aircraft External Loads

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    Topics covered include:
  • Overview
  • Airworthiness/criteria
  • Terminology
  • Basic data derivation
  • Finite element analysis
  • Structural model development
  • Aerodynamics
  • Aeroelasticity, aeroelastic model development
  • Load sources summary
  • Flight maneuver loads
  • Gust loads
  • Aeroservoelastics
  • Buffet loads
  • Ground loads
  • Landing impact loads
  • Miscellaneous loads, load sources
  • Loads verification/validation
  • Critical load case survey and definition
  • Fatigue loads
  • Turnkey loads development using MSC.Nastran, ZAERO, and Matlab
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