Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue are a widely referenced summary of advances in aeronautical design against fatigue. This is a bi-annual event and the proceedings have been published in book form for over 35 years.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS**.- PLANTEMA MEMORIAL LECTURE: Fleet recovery and life extension - Some lessons learned, by G. Clark.- AIRWORTHINESS AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: Sticks and stones (Could the words of aeronautical fatigue hurt us?), by S. Swift.- Analysis of requirements on fatigue and damage tolerance for civil transport airplanes, by B.G. Nesterenko, G.I. Nesterenko.- Material selection and detailed design - Requirements and responsibilities of an accredited and qualified test laboratory, by J. Gruner, S. Reichard, S. Goldbach, J. Ridzewski, R. Franke, R. Best, Th. Fleischer.- ADVANCED MATERIALS AND INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS: Bombardier aerospace FSW demonstrator, by L.J.J. Kok, K. Poston, G. Moore.- Evaluation of fatigue crack growth behavior in FSW joint by experiment, analysis and elasto-plastic FEM, by T. Okada, K. Kuwayama, M. Asakawa, T. Nakamura, S. Machida, S. Fujita,
H. Terada.- Recent development on bonded structures, by G. Delgrange, J.C. Ehrström.- Recent advancements in thin-walled hybrid structural technologies for damage tolerant aircraft fuselage applications, by R.C. Alderliesten, C.D. Rans, Th. Beumler, R. Benedictus.- Fatigue life assessment for composite structure, by A. Makeev, Y. Nikishkov.- Potential of CFRP used for light weight structures: Some experimental results, by Th. Fleischer, J. Ridzewski, M. Sachse, F. Schirmacher.- An implementation of an accelerated testing methodology to obtain static, creep and fatigue master curves of a T300/913 unidirectional composite material, by Y. Freed, S. Rzepka.- Improvement of vibration damping and flexural fatigue property incorporating nanoclay into glass/epoxy composite, by A. Kabir, S.V. Hoa.- Formation of a metal coating by means of friction stir processing, by D. Kocada, A. Górka, D. Zasada.- Influence of the carbon nanotube type, loading andchemical functionalization on the fatigue resistance of aluminum lap joints, by I.D. Rosca, R. Mactabi, S.V. Hoa.- Fatigue damage behavior of glass/epoxy composites using carbon nanotubes as sensors, by H. Hena-Zamal, S.V. Hoa.- DSTO - NLR Collaborative programme on fatigue properties of beta-annealed Ti-6Al-4V: Preliminary results, by E. Amsterdam, A. Shekhter, S.A. Barter, M. McDonald, R.J.H. Wanhill.- Damage tolerance demonstration of flange joint for aircraft engine composite fan case, by
Y. Ueda, H. Kuroki, T. Murooka, A. Tanaka, K. Miyazawa, I. Okumura, Y. Shigenari, K. Oikawa, H. Morita.- FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH AND LIFE PREDICTION METHODS:* The formation/nucleation of fatigue cracks in aircraft structural materials, by D.W. Hoeppner.- Modelling of continuing damage for damage tolerance analysis, by Y. Bombardier, M. Liao, G. Renaud.- The critical importance of correctly characterising fatigue crack growth rates in the threshold regime, by
K.F. Walker, S.A. Barter.- The relationships between crack closure, specimen compliance and effective fatigue crack growth rate, by D.L. Ball, J.K. Donald, M.A. James, R.J. Bucci.- Experimental and numerical study of stress and strain field around the rivet, by W. Wronicz, J. Kaniowski, B. Korzeniewski, E. Gadalinska.- Fatigue analyses of riveted lap-splice joints in a narrow-body aircraft, by J.C. Newman Jr., R. Ramakrishnan.- Crack growth rate curves: Which part dominates life prediction and when?, by C. Wallbrink, P. Jackson, W. Hu.- Critical distance for fatigue life prediction in aerospace materials, by Y. Yamashita, Y. Ueda, H. Kuroki.- A unified variable amplitude model for crack initiation and crack propagation, by A.B. Chattopadhyay, G. Glinka.- Development of an efficientmethodology and tool to determine stress intensity correction factors for complex aircraft structures, by G. Renaud, M. Liao, Y. Bombardier.- Improved SIF calculation in riveted panel type structures using numerical simulation, by
S.C. Mellings, J.M.W. Baynham, T.J. Curtin.- An 1D-Beam approach for both stress analysis and fatigue life prediction of bonded joints, by E. Paroissien, A. Da Veiga, A. Laborde.- Cyclic stress-strain and strain-life properties of aerospace metallic materials, by S.K. Walker, A.C. Quilter*.- Crack propagation calculation for aluminium aircraft structures considering the influence of l...