1 Rarely, fistulas occur externally to the skin or internally to another part of the biliary tree, to the pleural cavity or bronchial tree, or to the hepatic artery or portal vein or other vascular structures.
Load factor (aeronautics) In aeronautics, the load factor is defined as the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight and represents a global measure of the stress (load) to which the structure of the aircraft is subjected: where: Since the load factor is the ratio of two forces, it is dimensionless.
The determination of design loads involves a full aircraft analysis of the air pressure and inertia forces during certain prescribed maneuvers, either in the air or on the ground. TLG is capable of determining these loads for all kinds of aircraft in all manner of flight conditions.