Fatigue test results to be utilized in a fatigue life prediction model for aircraft fuselage riveted
lap joints are presented. A series of fatigue tests on aluminium alloy sheet coupons with an
open hole and filled hole subjected to remote tension, pin loading and out-of-plane bending
have been carried out. Such loading conditions were conceived to replicate local effects of
the bypass load, transfer load and secondary bending respectively at the critical rivet row. It
was shown that the fatigue response of the open hole specimens could be predicted with a …