Browsing Aeronautical Research Council Reports & Memoranda by Author "W. T. Kirkby"

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Part I. A Description of the Excitation and Recording Equipment used for Flight Flutter Tests on a Meteor 8. Part II. Comparative Flight Flutter Tests using the 'Decaying Oscillation' and 'Amplitude Response' Techniques

P. D. R. Luscombe; W. T. Kirkby (1959)

A description is given of the installation Of a single linear inertia exciter and multichannel recording equipment which was fitted to a Meteor aircraft for use in the development of flight flutter test techniques. The ...
Prediction of crack growth in damage-tolerant design - a basic parametric study

Vera J. Pike; W. T. Kirkby (1977)

A study has been undertaken to obtain some experience of the difficulties likely to arise in predicting crack behaviour when implementing the damage-tolerant design philosophy and to obtain an indication of the influence ...

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