Fatigue Evaluation of Aircraft Structure According to FAR Part 23 Airworthiness Standards

This bachelor thesis deals with acceptable means of showing compliance with the FAR 23 regulation based on safe-life experimental and analytical evaluation. In the introduction the author focuses on the historical development of the regulation and follows with summarization of current requirements. The subsequent pages describes in detail the certification based on full-scale testing, component testing and structural analysis using the cumulative rule. Appendix includes examples of load spectra approved by the FAA