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Pierre, "Crash
Factor Theory" is not really new engineering practice, but a new
descriptive title for a broad set of interrelated technical and
economic factors that inform engineering questions like "soft v hard"
in AWE, whose crash statistics are of course in a very early stage.
Crash analysis and statistics is a deeply studied subject in aerospace.
Below is a sample list of typical references. This a good 2003 USAF UAV
study, and the admirable Helios Crash Report reviewed before on the
AWES Forum- As
you know, the AWES Forum leads crash analysis discussion in the AWE
community, for almost ten years. Its not a topic that is fully
developed yet, but there is no doubt of its importance. A key test of
CFT prediction, as presented here, will be how Makani's M600 fares.
With so many failure modes, and given the US Airforce crash statistics,
as a similarity model, it does not look good for Makani. CFT also bears
on whether predictions like yours regarding soft v hard wings will
prove correct in real life, daveS ---------------
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 9:45 PM, "Pierre BENHAIEM
pierre-benhaiem@orange.fr [AirborneWindEnergy]"
<AirborneWindEnergy@yahoogroups.com
Is there a scientific paper for this sort of theory? What sort of statistics are used? Where are reports and data?
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