TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - Fatigue fracture of a nose landing gear in a military transport aircraft JO - Engineering failure analysis A1 - Franco, LAL A1 - Lourenco, NJ A1 - Graca, MLA A1 - Silva, OMM A1 - de Campos, PP A1 - von Dollinger, CFA SP - 474 EP - 479 VL - 13 IS - 3 N2 - This paper analyses the rupture of a nose landing gear of a military transport aircraft collapsed during take-off procedure. Examining the fracture surface, it was observed that the failure was due to growth of fatigue crack. Beach marks followed by a final fast fracture surface due to overload were observed.

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