... to design several complex repair schemes, such as the repair of fatigue cracks in the lower skin of Mirage aircraft [2] , and cracks on the upper surface of the wing pivot fitting of FlllC aircraft ... consider the effect that the difference between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the boron patch and the aluminium alloy wing skin has on the residual stresses left in the skin after the patch ... When allowing for the stiffeners using the stiffener correction factor (SCF), i.e. Eq. (9 .29 ) the approximate formulae was accurate, for all (20 0+) test cases, to within 5%. To confirm the...