PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - 737NGs have cracked 'pickle forks' after finding several in the jets.
Old 10th Oct 2019, 10:30
  #173 (permalink)  
Aihkio
 
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Posts: 0
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The effect on the fuselage comes from slightly different angular didplacement at the wing root. Pickle fork is not really ment to transfer these resulting loads as the ribs in place are not ment to carry the loads but to bend and not break.

This a secondary load effect and while sometimes problematic not_too_stiff structures carry them. Make everything stiff and one has problems with them. In optimised structures strength and stiffness must both be handled.
Aihkio is offline