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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
Were many WWII Japanese aircraft of wooden construction?
In any case, aircraft are designed to known G limits, and I know of no evidence that these G limits were typically different for wooden aircraft than for metal ones of a similar type. Ideally, TD should probably work with the known G limits for a type, but this may not always be available. Where they aren't, suggesting that 'it's wooden, so it must be weaker' is based on a dubious premise at best.
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Some Metal plates, like an aluminium plate has more ductility than wood. Ductility is a mechanical property used to describe the extent to which materials can be deformed plastically without fracture. Ductility is especially important in metalworking, as materials that crack or break under stress cannot be manipulated using metal forming processes
If aluminium plates deforms due to excessive forms it returns to its natural position in most times or smashes. Wood not, it brokes.
04-29-2010, 04:46 AM
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