EXPERIENCE OF INTRODUCING THE COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE DAMAGE TOLERANCE IMPROVEMENT METHOD FOR IMPROVING SAFETY OF HIGH-STRESS THICK-WALL GFRP COMPONENTS FOR RAILWAY INSULATING JOINTS

摘要

The Scientific and Production Company "ApATeCh" (Applied Advanced Technology Company) ― has been established in 1991 by aviation experts who had been working over 15 years developing and introducing composite structures in aircraft. Their efforts may be implemented in well-known airplanes Mikoyan MIG-29, Sukhoy SU-26, Antonov AN-72/74, Antonov AN-124 Ruslan, and Tupolev TU-204. The accumulated scientific and practical potentialities of major aviation centres such as TsAGI, Mikoyan and Antonov Design Bureaus were further implemented in ApATeCh activities.