Failure Cases Analysis in Aerospace Field

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The major concern in the aviation industry is the flight safety. Although great effort has been put into the development of material and system reliability, the failure cases of fatal accidents still occur nowadays. Due to the complexity of the aviation system and the interaction among the failure components, it is difficult to do the failure analysis of the related equipment. This study focused on surveying the failure cases in aviation, which were extracted from failure analysis journals, including Engineering Failure Analysis and Case studies in Engineering Failure Analysis, in order to obtain the failure sensitive factors or failure sensitive parts. The analytical results showed that among the failure cases the fatigue failure is the largest in number of occurrence. The most failed components are the disk, blade, landing gear, bearing, and fastener. The frequently failed materials are steel, aluminum alloy, superalloy and titanium alloy. Therefore, in order to assure the safety in aviation, more attention should be paid to the fatigue failures.

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