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Impact damage modelling of composite aerospace structures subject to bird-strike

  • German Aerospace Center
  • Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

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Abstract

One of the key aerospace design and manufacturing criteria that needs to be effectively foreseen and withstood is medium velocity impact conditions enforced by foreign object impacts, mainly bird-strike events. Since experimental impact testing is very costly, efforts have been made to numerically model such events with sufficient accuracy to represent real case scenarios and, consequently, to significantly reduce the minimum number of tests required for product approval processes. So far, very few numerical methodologies have been developed to describe the intricacies of the fluid-solid interactions as seen in bird collisions onto advanced composite structures with either through-the-thickness fracture or delamination being accounted for. This study aims at integrating the capabilities offered by a fluid-structure analysis methodology, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, with a cohesive composite fracture and delamination model in order to enable the determination of intricate inter-laminar structural damage as occurred in advanced aerospace composite sub-assemblies and structuresOne of the key aerospace design and manufacturing criteria that needs to be effectively foreseen and withstood is medium velocity impact conditions enforced by foreign object impacts, mainly bird-strike events. Since experimental impact testing is very costly, efforts have been made to numerically model such events with sufficient accuracy to represent real case scenarios and, consequently, to significantly reduce the minimum number of tests required for product approval processes. So far, very few numerical methodologies have been developed to describe the intricacies of the fluid-solid interactions as seen in bird collisions onto advanced composite structures with either through-the-thickness fracture or delamination being accounted for. This study aims at integrating the capabilities offered by a fluid-structure analysis methodology, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, with a cohesive composite fracture and delamination model in order to enable the determination of intricate inter-laminar structural damage as occurred in advanced aerospace composite sub-assemblies and structures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICAS-Secretariat - 25th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2006
PublisherInternational Council of The Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS)
Pages2536-2547
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781604232271
StatePublished - 2006
Event25th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2006 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: Sep 3 2006Sep 8 2006

Publication series

NameICAS-Secretariat - 25th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2006
Volume4

Conference

Conference25th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2006
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period09/3/0609/8/06

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