Impact damage-tolerant composite structural design

Author(s):  
R L SLERAKOWSKI
2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (1089) ◽  
pp. 541-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. O. Davies ◽  
R. Olsson

The problem of impact damage in laminated composite structures, and the consequent reduction in residual strength, has been a topic of continual research for over two decades. The number of journal papers on the subject now runs into four figures and most have been conscientiously reviewed by Abrate(1991, 1994, 1998). This review is not intended to be in the academic tradition, with emphasis on acknowledging the authorship of all the various research initiatives. Instead we present our opinions so that the reader can appreciate our current understanding of the problem, our capability of predicting by analysis, and the scope of the design tools for avoiding structural damage, or at least designing damage tolerant aerospace structures.


2013 ◽  
Vol 577-578 ◽  
pp. 489-492
Author(s):  
Hyun Bum Park

Recently, the development need of environmental and fuel efficient aircrafts has been emphasized as an eco-friendly requirement in response to high oil prices. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop the next-generation eco-friendly and high fuel efficiency engine technology to enhance the fuel efficiency and aerodynamic performance of aircrafts for the purpose of reducing carbon dioxide emission amount prior to collecting and dealing with air pollution substances being discharged. In this study, development of the turboprop propeller blade for turboprop engine including aerodynamic and structural design and analysis was performed. The proposed propeller will be used as a candidate propeller for a regional aircraft which has been developed in Korea. Because the propeller for the target aircraft must endure the high bending and twisting moment loads during the flight operation, the high stiffness and strength carbon/epoxy composite material is used as a major structure materials. As a design procedure for the present study, firstly the structural design load is estimated through the aerodynamic load case analysis, and then flanges of spars from major bending loads and the skin from shear loads are initially sized using both the netting rule and the rule of mixture. In order to investigate the structure safety and stability, the structure analysis is carried out by finite element analysis using commercial code, MSC. NASTRAN. In addition, because the propeller should be safe against the bird strike, the bird strike phenomenon is analyzed using a commercial code, ANSYS.


2016 ◽  
Vol 713 ◽  
pp. 277-279
Author(s):  
Hyun Bum Park

In this study, structural design and analysis of the automobile bonnet is performed. The flax/vinyl ester composite material is applied for structural design. The Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) manufacturing method is adopted for manufacturing the flax fiber composite bonnet. A series of flax/vinyl ester composite panels are manufactured, and several kinds of specimens cut out from the panels are tested to obtain mechanical performance data. Based on this, preliminary structural design of the automobile bonnet is performed. Finally, this study is to investigate the residual compressive strength of the flax/vinyl ester laminate due to impact damages. Through investigation on compressive strength, design allowable of flax/vinyl ester laminate is determined by the experiment to address design criteria of the composite structure.


2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Y. Lin ◽  
David T. Rusk ◽  
Jiaji Du

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