This paper offers a fresh and simple approach to setting the threshold for structural inspections. It shows how damage tolerance and the diamond work the same as for any other interval, and how they would work even better with risk management, human factors and less prescriptive regulation.
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Swift, S. (2009). First Diamond. In: Bos, M.J. (eds) ICAF 2009, Bridging the Gap between Theory and Operational Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2746-7_6
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