Originally Posted by NickLappos
There is a FAA AC on fatigue testing, and I believe some great AHS papers over the years. If you are building something commercial, I can recommend some expert friends!
Nick, this is genuinely appreciated. The project is another off-highway mining truck, with frame design life 60'000 hours. The idea is to learn from another industry in a the transport sector, but not a competing arena.
Related technical papers:
AHS technical papers
Airframe Fatigue
If you wanted to PM me the expert friend contact details, i guarantee that i would treat the exercise with the level of commercial sensitivity befitting a professional engineer.
Warmest regards,
Mart