Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
I wonder if they have G-load strip measurements on the carrier to decide if a stripdown is necessary? Seems awful expensive not to know if it's needed.
Hmm, they're probably not a reliable enough measure to be used for this purpose. They may be accurate, but unless every part of the engine has one stuck to it then there'd be no evidence that the whole engine hadn't exceeded loading limits. You can get some very weird effects when something is subject to an impulse shock like this; things oscillate, and can generate higher G on components than the overall shock. Think of pipes, shafts, anything long and stiff.
Snapping dry spaghetti is a good example. The shock of it breaking in one place is generally enough to make it break in a second, yet the original strain wasn't enough to break it there.
Plus in a world where paperwork is (rightfully) king, unless GE's books say you can drop it off the back of a lorry then it has to written off pending GE's opinion on the matter.