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Structural Analysis of the Right Rear Lug of American Airlines Flight 587*

I.S. Raju¹, E.H. Glaessgen¹, B.H. Mason¹, T. Krishnamurthy¹, C.G. Davila¹

1 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
* This paper received the ASME-Boeing Best Paper Award at the 46t h AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference in Austin, Texas, April 18-21, 2005.