That begs the question, if there is complete confidence in no failure, why is a test being done? If there isn't complete confidence in no failure, it seems it would be prudent to prepare for the possibility of what may happen if that failure occurs.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will look into the possibility of erecting a barrier and will definitely ask my boss to sign off on everything.
I'm all for leaning on the experience of others. My concern is that since the company has never experienced a failure during similar tests that no one on...
My employer at a small startup is looking to sandbag test the composite wing of an aircraft in the size range of a Cessna 152. They have a test fixture that constrains the wing root, and in the past had simply loaded sandbags onto the wing by hand to the target load, without experienced a wing...
