Fatigue life prediction of flap safety pins for civil aircraft

Lei Li, Qiang Bin Shi, Xuan Wang

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Abstract

According to the requirements of airworthiness regulations, the safety pin of the flap support arm of a civil aircraft should bear the aerodynamic load of the aircraft wing under normal conditions, and at the same time, it also should be convenient for emergency disconnection to avoid damaging the overall oil tank of the wing and then causing greater accidents under emergency conditions. Therefore, accurate prediction of the fatigue life of the safety pin of the flap of a civil aircraft is of great significance to the operation and maintenance of the aircraft. For the safety pin of the flap support arm, the static tests were carried out first to determine the dangerous position and the ultimate strength of the flap support arm. Then the finite element analysis by Abaqus was carried out to obtain the nominal stress and stress concentration coefficient of the dangerous position. In addition to the prediction of fatigue life of the dangerous position was obtained by using the nominal stress method and the fatigue damage accumulation theory. Finally, the fatigue tests of the safety pin were conducted to verify the results of life prediction. The error between the fatigue test results and the results predicted by the nominal stress method is small, which conforms to the actual needs of the engineering.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThird International Conference on Mechanical Design and Simulation, MDS 2023
EditorsMohamed Arezki Mellal, Yunqing Rao
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510664890
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Mechanical Design and Simulation, MDS 2023 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 3 Mar 20235 Mar 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12639
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Mechanical Design and Simulation, MDS 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period3/03/235/03/23

Keywords

  • Fatigue Test
  • Life Prediction
  • Nominal Stress Method
  • Safety Pin
  • Stress Severity Factor

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