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Journal articles on the topic "Airplanes Aircraft accidents Airplanes"

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Budde, Don, Jochen Hinkelbein, and Douglas D. Boyd. "Analysis of Air Taxi Accidents (20042018) and Associated Human Factors by Aircraft Performance Class." Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance 92, no. 5 (2021): 294–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.3357/amhp.5799.2021.

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INTRODUCTION: Air taxis conduct nonscheduled transport and employ aircraft in various performance categories hereafter referred to as low, medium, and high performance, respectively. No study has yet addressed fixed-wing air taxi safety by performance category. Herein, we compared accident rates/occupant injury across air taxi airplane fleets grouped by performance category and identified human factors contributing to fatal accidents for airplanes in that category with the highest mishap rate.METHODS: Accidents (20042018) in the United States were identified from the National Transportation Sa
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Boyd, Douglas D., and Cass Howell. "Accident Rates, Causes, and Occupant Injury Involving High-Performance General Aviation Aircraft." Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance 91, no. 5 (2020): 387–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3357/amhp.5509.2020.

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BACKGROUND: Spatial disorientation, poor situational awareness, and aerodynamic stalls are often causal/contributory to general aviation accidents. To mitigate against the occurrence of these mishaps Cirrus Aircraft has, since 2002, introduced advanced avionics into their piston airplanes (Cirrus SR20/22). These airplanes are also certificated to more rigorous crashworthiness tests than legacy aircraft approved prior to these standards being codified. Herein, using for comparison two legacy aircraft fleets manufactured prior to 2002, we determined whether a reduced mishap rate for all accident
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Lü, Zhi, Zhan Gao, and Yi Lü. "A Flight Simulator that Grouping Aircrafts Simultaneously Take off and Land in Open Grid Computing Environment." Applied Mechanics and Materials 182-183 (June 2012): 1292–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.182-183.1292.

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The performance of airplane in commercial airline environment is determined by, and therefore an indicator of performance measure of, the thermodynamic properties of airplane. The aim of this study was to establish the use of simulators to determine aircraft accident for a flight of airplanes and evaluate the potential of new airspace structure and airport’s runway. This indicates that there is a possibility of obtaining airplane performance from analysis and verification simulating airplane. As compared with AIRBUS Full Flight Simulator, a multiple aircrafts flight simulator that grouping air
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Ogonowski, Krzysztof, Jacek Nowak, Jerzy Achimowicz, and Rafał Biernacki. "Protection of Air Transport Against Acts of Unlawful Interference." Safety & Defense 6, no. 2 (2020): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.37105/sd.89.

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Air transport consists in moving people or goods by air. Aircrafts, known as the main means of air transport, can be divided into two categories: airplanes and helicopters. Such transport is the most modern and the most dynamically developing branch of transport. It is also considered to be the safest mode of transport, even though, for various reasons, aviation accidents still occur.
 Security in aviation has various connotations. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), it is a state in which the possibility of damage to persons or property is minimized and is
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Mortimer, Rudolf G. "General Aviation Airplane Accidents Involving Spatial Disorientation." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 39, no. 1 (1995): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193129503900107.

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National Transportation Safety Board accident data for 1983-1991 were used to compare those general aviation accident cases that involved spatial disorientation (SD) with all others. About 2.1% of general aviation airplane accidents involved SD. Those accidents were associated with low ceilings, restricted visibility, precipitation, darkness and instrument flight conditions. Pilots in certain professions, particularly those in business, were more involved in SD accidents. Pilots in SD accidents were more often under pressure, fatigue, anxiety, physical impairment and alcohol or drugs. The pilo
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Gawron, Valerie J., and Jeff Peer. "Evaluation of Airplane Upset Recovery Training." Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors 4, no. 2 (2014): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/2192-0923/a000059.

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Loss of control is one of the leading factors in hull losses and fatalities in airline aircraft. To reduce the risk of this type of accident, four types of airplane upset recovery training have been developed (ground-based flight simulation, aerobatic flight, ground-based flight simulation with aerobatic flight, and in-flight simulation). These were evaluated during in-flight reenactments of fatal, hull loss airline airplane accidents. A between-subjects design, with five groups of eight nonmilitary pilots flying in their probationary year for airlines, was used to evaluate these types of trai
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Szczepaniak, Paweł, Grzegorz Jastrzębski, Krzysztof Sibilski, and Andrzej Bartosiewicz. "The Study of Aircraft Accidents Causes by Computer Simulations." Aerospace 7, no. 4 (2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7040041.

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Defects in an aircraft can be caused by design flaw, manufacturer flaw or wear and tear from use. Although inspections are performed on the airplane before and after flights, accidents still result from faulty equipment and malfunctioning components. Determining the causes of an aircraft accident is an outcome of a very laborious and often very long investigation process. According to the statistics, currently the human factor has the biggest share within the causal groups. Along with the development of aviation technology came a decline in the number of accidents caused by failures or malfunc
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Medvedev, Alexander. "AIRPLANE CATASTROPHE AS A RESULT OF OPERATIONAL ERRORS AND VIOLATIONS." Aviation 17, no. 2 (2013): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16487788.2013.805866.

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In 2006 an accident occurred when a Cessna 152 training aircraft was carrying out a training flight. After taking off, the aircraft engine started to work sporadically as the aircraft gained altitude, and then it stopped. The aircraft crashed. During the crash, the aircraft was damaged and set on fire. Two people, the pilot-instructor and the trainee-pilot perished in the catastrophe. Aircraft of this type are not equipped with flight data recorders. As a result, it is a problem to objectively get information about the cause of the aircraft accident. With consideration of the available informa
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Kirby, Joseph. "Social Acceptance of Increased Usage of the Ballistic Parachute System in a General Aviation Aircraft." Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance 91, no. 2 (2020): 86–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3357/amhp.5453.2020.

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BACKGROUND: An airframe parachute (“Chute”) available in certain aircraft is designed to lower the airplane safely to the ground for emergency situations that occur 500 ft (152 m) above ground level (AGL): the “Chute altitude envelope.” This study will explore the change in Chute use before and after 2012 to better understand factors that increased usage and improved accident outcomes.METHODS: Using the public National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident database from January 1, 2001, through August 31, 2018, a regression model was developed to identify factors that may predict Chute u
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Cummings, M. L. "Perspectives: A Human Factors Perspective on Aircraft Design." Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications 18, no. 2 (2010): 23–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1518/106480410x12737888532840.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Airplanes Aircraft accidents Airplanes"

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Pispitsos, Stelios P. "Neural network for control signal reconstruction in non-linear systems with an application to aircraft dynamics." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=768.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 1999.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 125 p. : ill. (some col.) Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95).
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Falconer, Boyd Travis School of Aviation UNSW. "Attitudes to safety and organisational culture in Australian military aviation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Aviation, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25751.

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This thesis describes original research that examines the extent to which organisational culture, and psychosocial aspects specifically, relate to individuals??? ???normal??? performance within Australian Defence Force (ADF) aviation. The primary rationale for the research relates to the ???safety record??? of ADF aviation, whereby more than fifty ???peace time??? fatalities have occurred in ADF aviation accidents since 1990 and many of these have links to organisational culture attributes. The secondary rationale relates to a more general perspective: previous research identifies human functi
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McClernon, Christopher K. "Stress effects on transfer from virtual environment flight training to stressful flight environments." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA501682.

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Dissertation (Ph.D. in Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.<br>Dissertation supervisor: McCauley, Michael E. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2009. DTIC Identifiers: Flight simulator, virtual environment, human physiology, transfer of training, human performance, stress coping, stress exposure training. Author(s) subject terms: Stress, training, transfer of training, flight simulator, virtual environment, human physiology, human performance, strain, stress coping, stress exposure training. Includes bibliograp
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Aguilar, Cortés Carlos Ezequiel. "Air carrier liability and automation issues." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78196.

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Our intended topic is a general discussion of the basic elements of liability related to airline accidents to which fully automated cockpits have constituted an associated contributory factor. In addition we addressed the liability of air carriers arising from injuries or death caused to passengers traveling on international flights. For this purpose, we reviewed the Warsaw System and the different international instruments that constitute it. We also reviewed principles of common law applicable to aircraft manufacturers and the "Free Flight" as an example of the growing automation envi
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Pang, Yuen-fai Alson. "Managing aircraft noise /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2543598x.

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Thompson, Brian G. "Aircraft agility." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040436/.

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彭遠輝 and Yuen-fai Alson Pang. "Managing aircraft noise." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31255280.

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Kay, Jacob. "Control authority assessment in aircraft conceptual design." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03242009-040703/.

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Agenbag, Daniël Sarel. "Longitudinal handling characteristics of a tailless gull-wing aircraft." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09182008-132941.

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Hall, David M. "Demonstrative maneuvers for aircraft agility predictions /." Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Ft. Belvior, VA : Alexandria, Va. : Air Force Institute of Technology ; Available to the public through the Defense Technical Information Center ; Available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, 2008. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/.

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Thesis (M.S. in in Aeronautical Engineering)--Air Force Institute of Technology, March 2008.<br>"Presented to the Faculty, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology Air University, Air Education and Training Command in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, March 2008."--P. [ii]. Thesis advisor: Lt. Col. Chris Shearer. "March 2008." "AFIT/GAE/ENY/08-M13." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online in PDF from the DTIC Online Web sit
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Books on the topic "Airplanes Aircraft accidents Airplanes"

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Martin, Thomas E. Military aircraft accidents around western Massachusetts, 1941-. T.E. Martin, 1994.

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Oster, Clinton V. Why airplanes crash: Aviation safety in a changing world. Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Unhappy landings: Why airplanes crash. Harbor City Press, 1992.

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Military aviation disasters: Significant losses since 1908. 2nd ed. Haynes Pub., 2010.

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United States. National Transportation Safety Board. Controlled flight into terrain Bruno's Inc., Beechjet, N25BR Rome, Georgia December 11, 1991. The Board, 1992.

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United States. National Transportation Safety Board. Impact with blast fence upon landing rollout, Action Air Charters flight 990, Piper PA-31-350, N990RA, Stratford, Connecticut, April 27, 1994. The Board, 1994.

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United States. National Transportation Safety Board. Collision with trees on final approach, American Airlines flight 1572, McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N566AA, East Granby, Connecticut, November 12, 1995. The Board, 1996.

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Board, United States National Transportation Safety. Descent below visual glidepath and collision with terrain, Delta Air Lines flight 554, McDonnell Douglas MD-88, N914DL, LaGuardia Airport, New York, October 19, 1996. The Board, 1997.

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Board, United States National Transportation Safety. Runway overrun following rejected takeoff, Continental Airlines flight 795, McDonnell Douglas MD-82, N18835, LaGuardia Airport, Flushing, New York, March 2, 1994. The Board, 1995.

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Board, United States National Transportation Safety. Collision with trees on final approach, American Airlines flight 1572, McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N566AA, East Granby, Connecticut, November 12, 1995. The Board, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Airplanes Aircraft accidents Airplanes"

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Baer, Hans A. "The political economy of aircraft." In Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429201486-2.

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"Aircraft Performance." In Performance, Stability, Dynamics, and Control of Airplanes, Second Edition. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/5.9781600862274.0067.0163.

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Fletcher, George P. "Accidents vs. Mistakes." In The Grammar of Criminal Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190903572.003.0011.

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This chapter discusses the distinction between accidents and mistakes. Much of the law of torts centers on negligent accidents—whether with cars, airplanes, guns, or simply walking on a slippery floor. The important feature of torts, as opposed to crime, is that there is no liability absent harm to the plaintiff. For example, there is no liability for merely attempting or risking harm. In domestic criminal law, accidents become relevant only in what can be called the pattern of harmful consequences, that is, where there is a causal chain between the action and the harm. Meanwhile, according to Article 31(1) of the Rome Statute, a mistake of fact is relevant only if it negates the mental element required for the crime.
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Li, Mingyan, Krishna Sampigethaya, and Radha Poovendran. "Certificate-Based Trust Establishment in eEnabled Airplane Applications." In Wireless Technologies. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-101-6.ch811.

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This chapter describes potential roles of trust in future aviation information systems. The next-generation air transportation systems are envisioned to be a highly networked environment with aircraft digitally linked with ground systems and wireless technologies allowing real-time continuous sensing, collection and distribution of aircraft information assets. The resulting enhancements promise to revolutionize manufacturing, operation and maintenance of commercial airplanes. Safe and dependable aircraft operation as well as public well-being in these complex system-of-systems with multiple stakeholders, demands that the distributed information assets can be trusted to be correct and that the level of trustworthiness in systems can be established. This chapter considers two recent abstractions of such aviation systems – an electronic distribution system connecting aircraft with ground components for exchanging updates and data of onboard software, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) system for logistics and maintenance of aircraft – which use digital certificates to establish trust in integrity and authenticity of information assets as well as in authorized components handling these assets. The chapter presents unique challenges of aviation, such as regulations and business models, which can complicate implementation of certificate-based trust and further warrant trustworthiness proofs.
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Latner, Teishan A. "Revolution in the Air." In Cuban Revolution in America. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635460.003.0004.

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Chapter Three explores Cuba’s image within the U.S. radical imaginary through the surge of airplane hijackings that occurred from the U.S. to Cuba between 1968 and 1973. Seeking political asylum, sanctuary from criminal charges, contact with Third World revolutionary movements, and apolitical adventure, Americans who hijacked airplanes to Cuba often framed air piracy as an act of political protest. Cuban immigration officials were not always convinced, however, viewing many hijackers as criminals, not revolutionaries. Making ninety attempts to reach Cuba in commandeered aircraft, American air pirates ultimately forced the U.S. and Cuban governments into unprecedented high-level negotiations despite the nations’ lack of diplomatic relations. Viewing hijacking as a liability, the Cuban government moved to counter its outlaw mystique in the American popular imagination, with the two governments signing a bilateral agreement to curb hijacking in 1973.
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Ochoa Ortiz-Zezzatti, Alberto, Tania Olivier, Raymundo Camarena, Guadalupe Gutiérrez, Daniel Axpeitia, and Irving Vázque. "Intelligent Drones Improved With Algae Algorithm." In Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8365-3.ch001.

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Implement an optimal arrangement of equipment, instrumentation and medical personnel based on the weight and balance of the aircraft and transfer humanitarian aid in a Drone, by implementing artificial intelligence algorithms. This due to the problems presented by geographical layout of human settlements in southeast of the state of Chihuahua. The importance of this research is to understand from a Multivariable optimization associated with the path of a group of airplanes associated with different kind of aerial improve the evaluate flooding and send medical support and goods to determine the optimal flight route involve speed, storage and travel resources for determining the cost benefit have partnered with a travel plan to rescue people, which has as principal basis the orography airstrip restriction, although this problem has been studied on several occasions by the literature failed to establish by supporting ubiquitous computing for interacting with the various values associated with the achievement of the group of drones and their cost-benefit of each issue of the company and comparing their individual trips for the rest of group. There are several factors that can influence in the achievement of a group of Drones for our research we propose to use a Bioinspired Algorithm.
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Ochoa-Zezzatti, Alberto, Tania Olivier, Raymundo Camarena, Guadalupe Gutiérrez, Daniel Axpeitia, and Irving Vázque. "Intelligent Drones Improved With Algae Algorithm." In Handbook of Research on Emergent Applications of Optimization Algorithms. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2990-3.ch012.

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Implement an optimal arrangement of equipment, instrumentation and medical personnel based on the weight and balance of the aircraft and transfer humanitarian aid in a Drone, by implementing artificial intelligence algorithms. This due to the problems presented by geographical layout of human settlements in southeast of the state of Chihuahua. The importance of this research is to understand from a Multivariable optimization associated with the path of a group of airplanes associated with different kind of aerial improve the evaluate flooding and send medical support and goods to determine the optimal flight route involve speed, storage and travel resources for determining the cost benefit have partnered with a travel plan to rescue people, which has as principal basis the orography airstrip restriction, although this problem has been studied on several occasions by the literature failed to establish by supporting ubiquitous computing for interacting with the various values associated with the achievement of the group of drones and their cost-benefit of each issue of the company and comparing their individual trips for the rest of group. There are several factors that can influence in the achievement of a group of Drones for our research we propose to use a Bioinspired Algorithm.
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Cantor, Brian. "Griffith’s Equation." In The Equations of Materials. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851875.003.0012.

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Most materials fracture suddenly because they contain small internal and surface cracks, which propagate under an applied stress. Griffith’s equation shows how fracture strength depends inversely on the square root of the size of the largest crack. It was developed by Alan Griffith, while he was working as an engineer at Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough just after the First World War. This chapter examines brittle and ductile fracture, the concepts of fracture toughness, stress intensity factor and stBiographical Memoirs of Fellows ofrain energy release rate, the different fracture modes, and the use of fractography to understand the causes of fracture in broken components. The importance of fracture mechanics was recognised after the Second World War, following the disastrous failures of the Liberty ships from weld cracks, and the Comet airplanes from sharp window corner cracks. Griffith’s father was a larger-than-life buccaneering explorer, poet, journalist and science fiction writer, and Griffith lived an unconventional, peripatetic and impoverished early life. He became a senior engineer working for the UK Ministry of Defence and then Rolls-Royce Aeroengines, famously turning down Whittle’s first proposed jet engine just before the Second World War as unworkable because the engine material would melt, then playing a major role in jet engine development after the war, including engines for the first vertical take-off planes.
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Pool, Robert. "Complexity." In Beyond Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195107722.003.0009.

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Things used to be so simple. In the old days, a thousand generations ago or so, human technology wasn’t much more complicated than the twigs stripped of leaves that some chimpanzees use to fish in anthills. A large bone for a club, a pointed stick for digging, a sharp rock to scrape animal skins—such were mankind’s only tools for most of its history. Even after the appearance of more sophisticated, multipiece devices—the bow and arrow, the potter’s wheel, the ox-drawn cart—nothing was difficult to understand or decipher. The logic of a tool was clear upon inspection, or perhaps after a little experimentation. No longer. No single person can comprehend the entire workings of, say, a Boeing 747. Not its pilot, not its maintenance chief, not any of the thousands of engineers who worked upon its design. The aircraft contains six million individual parts assembled into hundreds of components and systems, each with a role to play in getting the 165-ton behemoth from Singapore to San Francisco or Sidney to Saskatoon. There are structural components such as the wings and the six sections that are joined together to form the fuselage. There are the four 21,000-horsepower Pratt &amp; Whitney engines. The landing gear. The radar and navigation systems. The instrumentation and controls. The maintenance computers. The fire-fighting system. The emergency oxygen in case the cabin loses pressure. Understanding how and why just one subassembly works demands years of study, and even so, the comprehension never seems as palpable, as tangible, as real as the feel for flight one gets by building a few hundred paper airplanes and launching them across the schoolyard. Such complexity makes modern technology fundamentally different from anything that has gone before. Large, complex systems such as commercial airliners and nuclear power plants require large, complex organizations for their design, construction, and operation. This opens up the technology to a variety of social and organizational influences, such as the business factors described in chapter 3. More importantly, complex systems are not completely predictable.
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De Blij, Harm. "Geography of Jeopardy." In The Power of Place. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195367706.003.0009.

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Everyone lives with risk, every day. In the United States, more than 100,000 persons die from accidents every year, nearly half of them on the country’s roads. Worldwide, an average of more than 5000 coal miners perish underground annually, a toll often forgotten by those who oppose nuclear power generation on grounds of safety. From insect bites to poisoned foods and from smoking to travel, risk is unavoidable. Certain risks can be mitigated through behavior (not smoking, wearing seatbelts), but others are routinely accepted as inescapable. A half century ago, long before hijackings and airport security programs, the number of airline travelers continued to increase robustly even as airplanes crashed with considerable frequency. Today, few drivers or passengers are deterred by the carnage on the world’s roads, aware of it though they may be. Risk is part of life. Risk, however, also is a matter of abode, of location. Who, after experiencing or witnessing on television the impact of a hurricane, a tornado, an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a flood, a blizzard, or some other extreme natural event, has not asked the question: “Where in the world might be a relatively safe place to live?” Geographers, some of whom have made the study of natural hazards and their uneven distribution a research priority, don’t have a simple answer. But on one point they leave no doubt: people, whether individually or in aggregate, subject themselves to known environmental dangers even if they have the wherewithal to avoid them. Many Americans build their retirement or second homes on flood-prone barrier islands along coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes. The Dutch, who have for many years been emigrating from the Netherlands in substantial numbers, are leaving for reasons other than the fact that two-thirds of their country lies below sea level. From Indonesia to Mexico, farmers living on the fertile slopes of active volcanoes not only stay where they are, but often resist even temporary relocation when volcanic activity resumes. From Tokyo to Tehran, people continue to cluster in cities with histories of devastating earthquakes and known to be situated in perilous fault zones. Fatalism is a cross-cultural human trait.
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Conference papers on the topic "Airplanes Aircraft accidents Airplanes"

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Limon, Sergio, David W. Hoeppner, Paul N. Clark, and Jerzy Komorowski. "What Do Pipelines and Airplanes Have in Common?" In 2016 11th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2016-64451.

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In 1958, General Curtis E. LeMay established the structural integrity program for the United States Air Force (USAF). Since then, the USAF has been honing the requirements for extending the service life, durability, and safety of aircraft. These requirements have evolved to include Damage Tolerance principles that encompass the design and the management of aircraft with the objective of reducing maintenance burdens and ensure structural integrity for airworthiness, safety, and mission capability. Recently, requirements of some agencies and companies include Holistic Life Structural Integrity P
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ROSKAM, J. "Rapid sizing methods for airplanes." In Aircraft Design Systems and Operations Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1985-4031.

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DUNICAN, MICHAEL. "Installation of innovative turbofan engines on current transport airplanes." In Aircraft Design, Systems and Operations Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1987-2921.

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Bendarkar, Mayank V., Jiacheng Xie, Simon I. Briceno, Evan D. Harrison, and Dimitri Mavris. "A Model-Based Aircraft Certification Framework for Normal Category Airplanes." In AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-3096.

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Lee, Samuel, Samuel Frick, and Steve Lamb. "In-flight engine fire extinguishing agent concentration tests for commercial airplanes." In Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Congress. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1995-3977.

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Siahaya, Odo, Walt Jarrett, and Terry Heffield. "A Retrofit Crash Protection Installation in Two Models of General Aviation Airplanes." In General Aviation Aircraft Meeting and Exposition. SAE International, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/871008.

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"Design constraints in the payload-range diagram of ultra-high capacity transport airplanes." In Aircraft Design, Systems, and Operations Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1993-3951.

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Mak, Lawrence, Brian Farnworth, Eugene H. Wissler, et al. "Thermal Requirements for Surviving a Mass Rescue Incident in the Arctic: Preliminary Results." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-49471.

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Maritime and air traffic through the Arctic has increased in recent years. Cruise ship and commercial jet liners carry a large number of passengers. With increased traffic, there is a higher probability that a major disaster could occur. Cruise ship and plane accidents could be catastrophic and may require mass rescue. Due to the remote location, limited search and rescue resources, time for these resources to get to the accident location and large number of survivors, the retrieval time could be several days. Therefore, survivors may be required to survive on their own for days while they awa
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Lawhorn, Damien, Vandana Rallabandi, and Dan M. Ionel. "Distributed Propulsion Power Electronics Drive-train Architectures for Hybrid and Solar Electric Vehicles and Airplanes." In 2018 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4995.

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Lo Frano, R., G. Forasassi, and G. Pugliese. "Preliminary Safety Evaluation of an Aircraft Impact on a Near-Surface Radioactive Waste Repository." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96235.

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The aircraft impact accident has become very significant in the design of a nuclear facilities, particularly, after the tragic September 2001 event, that raised the public concern about the potential damaging effects that the impact of a large civilian airplane could bring in safety relevant structures. The aim of this study is therefore to preliminarily evaluate the global response and the structural effects induced by the impact of a military or commercial airplane (actually considered as a “beyond design basis” event) into a near surface radioactive waste (RWs) disposal facility. The safety
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