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Smart|LD Capabilities

General Capabilities of Smart|LD

Loading Generation

Computed from exceedance curves (Internal library and user exceedance option) – Weighted usage available.
Flight Duration/Velocity and weight matrices, Design load limit factors, one-g stress, and ground stress as user input.

Damage accumulated using Miner's rule

Multiple Random Variables

Library of exceedance curves (weighted mix ok) – Option for user input exceedance.
Flight duration, a/c velocity, one-g stress, and ground stress
PSN curve constructed from constant amplitude tests
Option for user input PSN
Sink Rate
Random damage coefficient.
Stress Severity Factor (SSF) option

Text output files showing Monte Carlo results

Sensitivities computed using correlation and scatter plots

Life distribution and hazard rate calculation

GUI

Standard Fortran 95/03, Unix and Windows

Fleet Management

–Computed from exceedance curves (Internal library and user exceedance option) – Weighted usage available.

–Flight Duration/Velocity and weight matrices, Design load limit factors, one-g stress, and ground stress as user input.

–Safe-Life calculations (in # of flights and # of hours) using MC sampling

–Accumulated damage calculation based on the user number of flight hours.

–Probability of failure computed using MC sampling

–Library of exceedance curves (weighted mix ok) – Option for user input exceedance.

–Flight duration, a/c velocity, one-g stress, and ground stress

–PSN curve constructed from constant amplitude tests – Option for user input PSN

–Sink Rate

–Random damage coefficient.

–Stress Severity Factor (SSF) option