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Composite Structures

Safety Management

  • 1st Edition - May 19, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Dr. Bjorn F. Backman
  • Language: English

Composite Structures extends the focus to all the entities that participate in the successful quest for safety and demonstrates how design, manufacturing, maintenance, (inspecti… Read more

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Description

Composite Structures extends the focus to all the entities that participate in the successful quest for safety and demonstrates how design, manufacturing, maintenance, (inspection), operation, and requirements (regulations) all are part of successful, safe innovation and necessary to assure safe flight through the life of the vehicle. It addresses the notion that safety is a function of time and that vigilant risk management is only successful if it includes all participating entities.

It is a companion to the author's first volume, Composite Structure: Design, Safety and Innovation, published by Elsevier in June 2005.

Key features

  • Eliminates an unacceptable 'gap' in the world of safety
  • Represents a 'new' approach to designing, manufacturing, maintaining, operating and regulating composite airplane structures
  • Written for professionals in the aerospace structural development arena whether in indusrty, academia or government

Readership

Composite Safety specialists in industry, government and academia, aeronautical and aerospace engineers, engineers and scientists in structures, materials science, safety, quality control, testing, design, development and applied research, and advanced graduate students.

Table of contents

Index

PART 1 SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Chapter 1
Introduction

1.1. Elements of Structural Safety

1.2. Interaction between Elements

1.3. Effects on Safety and the Influence of Residual Strength

1.4. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Structural Integrity and Safety Threats

2.1. Integrity and Manufacturing

2.2. Integrity and Maintenance

2.3. Integrity and Operation

2.4. Integrity and Rerquirements

2.5. Integrity Summary

2.6. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 2

2.7. The Process Quality of the Elements of Safety
Chapter 3
Elements of Safety and Design Data

3.1. Mishaps in Manufacturing

3.2. Quality Assurance

3.3. Quality Control

3.4. Errors in Maintenance

3.5. Failures in Operation

3.6. Requirement Transgressions

3.7. Effects of Different Elements of Safety

3.8. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Effects on the Safe State

4.1. Manufacturing and Processing Discrepancies

4.2. Mechanical Flaws and Damage

4.3. “Added”, Spurious, Internal Loads

4.4. Summary of Effects

4.5. Installation and Assembly Problems

4.6. Maintenance Defects

4.7. Operational Mishaps

4.8. Requirement Formulation

4.9. Monitoring, Interpreting, Reporting and Updating

4.10. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Process Defects Affecting Quality of Structures

5.1. Defects of Manufacturing

5.2. Defects in Maintenance

5.3. Operational Defects

5.4. Defects in Requirements Formulation

5.5. Targets for Monitoring

5.6. Essential Conclusions for Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Design Criteria Development

6.1. Foundation of Safety-based Criteria

6.2. Fail-Safety, Structural Design and Safe Manufacturing

6.3. Reduced Structural Properties and Unsafe Manufacturing

6.4. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Scenarios and Structural Integrity

7.1 Critical Scenarios

7.2 Essential Conclusion in Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Safety and Structural Integrity

8.1. Ultimate Integrity; the basic Corner Stone

8.2. Process Quality and Monitoring

8.3. Defect Targets and Relations

8.4. Purpose and Approach of Structural Integrity and Process Quality
Chapter 9
Structural Service Monitoring

9.1. Monitoring Example

9.2. Priority Targets for Monitoring

9.3, Structural Defects

9.4. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Structural Integrity, Safety and Design

10.1. Structural Safety and Criteria

10.2. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Design Mission, Criticality and Integrity

11.1. Damage Tolerance Integrity and Criticality

11.2. Criticality and Process Defects

11.3. Criticality and Repair Processes

11.4. Criticality and Damage Tolerance Related Processes

11.5. Mechanical Damage Threats

11.6. Essential Conclusions of Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Risk and Uncertainty

12.1 Markers for Monitoring Action

12.2 Situations after Scheduled Inspection

12.3 Wide-spread Defects

12.4 Initial Damage Regions and Process Definition

12.5 Essential Conclusions of Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Elements of Safety and their Characteristics

13.1. Element of Structural Design

13.2. Element of Manufacturing

13.3. Element of Maintenance

13.4. Element of Requirement Formulation

13.5. Safety Targets
Chapter 14
Generalized Safe States

14.1. Fail-Safe Integrity

14.2. Integrity Description

14.3 Safety Management Strategy

14.4 Uncertainty and Monitoring

14.5 Essential Conclusions of Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Scenarios and Safety

15.1. Manufacturing Process Defects

15.2. Increase in Internal loads due to Manufacturing Defects

15.3. Maintenance Defects

15.4. Defects in Operation

15.5. Defects in Requirements Formulation
Chapter 16
Design Mission and Philosophy

16.1. Maneuver Critical Designs

16.2. Gust Critical Design

16.3. Wide-spread Defects

16.4. Structural Integrity and Composites

16.5. Safety Strategy and Objectives

16.6. Design Data and Integrity

16.7. Essential Conclusions in Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Strategy and Objectives for Design

17.1. Ultimate Integrity

17.2. State of Damage for Ultimate Conditions

17.3. Fail-Safe Integrity

17.4. Discrete Source Damage Integrity

17.5. Essential Conclusions in Chapter 17
PART 2 SAFETY MANAGEMENT SUMMATION
Chapter 18
Elements of Safety and Engineering Practices

18.1. Safety Background

18.2. Initial Formulation and Updating

18.3. The “World of Composites”
PART 3: IMPROVED STRUCTURAL SAFETY OF COMPOSITES
Chapter 19
Improvement in Structural Safety of Composites

19.1. Wide-spread Defects

19.2. Discrete Source Damage Integrity

19.3. Unsafe States and Safety Improvements

19.4. Essential Conclusions in Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Process Quality and Integrity of Requirements Formulation

20.1. Process for Regulations
Chapter 21
Safety Management and Process Quality

21.1. Manufacturing Process Safety Management Requirements

21.2. General Process Defects and Effects

21.3. Maintenance Defects in Safety Management

21.4. Operational Defects

21.5. Defective Requirements

21.6. Defect and Effect Review

21.7. Structural Safety
Chapter 22
Unsafe State

22.1. Unsafe Elements of Safety

22.2. Total Probability of an Unsafe State
Chapter 23
Summary of Safety Management

23.1. Design Process and Practices

23.2. Discrete Source Damage Design

23.3. Tire-Burst

23.4. Fail-Safe Back-up to Reduced Damage Tolerance due to Manufacturing Defects

23.5. Hail-stone Impact in Flight

23.6. Process Development
Chapter 24
Philosophy: Design to Explicit Safety Constraints

24.1. Probability of Failure

24.2. Design Process

24.3. Requirements Formulation

24.4. In-Service Monitoring

24.5. Process Development
Appendix 1: Failure due to Lost Limit Integrity
Appendix 2: Sizing to Safety Considerations - Damage Tolerance Critical Structure

Product details

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  • Published: January 3, 2014
  • Language: English

About the author

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Dr. Bjorn F. Backman

Affiliations and expertise
Structure and Materials Structured Research, Camano Island, WA, USA

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