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Criteria for the Assessment of Multiple Site Damage in Ageing Aircraft

P. Horst¹

1 TU Braunschweig,Germany

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring 2005, 1(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.3970/sdhm.2005.001.049

Abstract

The paper presents a Monte Carlo Simulation method for the assessment of Multiple Site Damage (MSD) and a subsequent attempt to find a way to interpret intermediate results of the Monte Carlo Simulation with respect to the criticality of scenarios. The basic deterministic part of the model is based on the compounding method, which is used in order to gain an acceptable computational effort. Some examples illustrate features of MSD scenarios and this allows to check an approach for feature detection via Wavelet transforms. This Wavelet transform approach shows some positive results in the interpretation of MSD scenarios.

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