Patrick Safarian © 2013 Lesson 01 – Introduction Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Requirements of Civil Aviation Dr. Patrick Safarian, P.E. FAA Senior Technical Specialist Winter 2014 Parts of the material for this presentation is taken from presentation material by Mr. Dan Cheney, Mr. Walter Sippel, Mr. Greg Schneider and Mr. Robert Eastin of FAA. Major parts of the material in these presentations are taken from the AA531 course textbook, 'Fatigue of Structures and Materials' by Prof Jaap Schijve, Springer, 2009. Professor Schijve is currently affiliated with Delft University of Technology. This material cannot be reproduced in whole or part without written permission of the author and/or the publisher. 1 Aeronautics & Astronautics A Community of Innovators