Prediction of residual strength of impact damaged aerospace composite structures
- Aerospace Technologies of Australia, Port Melbourne (Australia)
The importance of composites for aerospace structures is well known and therefore its increased use is being made for such structural components. However, these structures may be damaged as a result of various causes. One of the important causes is the impact damage either during manufacture or service. The amount of damage by impact created in the structure depends on several parameters such as impactor mass and velocity (impact energy), the structure material and support conditions. Since the magnitude of damage depends on impact energy, the residual strength may be expressed as a function of impact energy. Using a three parametric approach, a model is proposed to predict the residual strength behavior of impact damaged structure. The predicted behavior is shown to compare favorably with the available test data.
- OSTI ID:
- 143593
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930246-; ISBN 0-87339-251-5; TRN: IM9413%%103
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Advanced composites `93: international conference on advanced composite materials (ICACM), Wollongong (Australia), 15-19 Feb 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Advanced composites 1993; Chandra, T. [ed.] [Univ. of Wollongong (Australia)]; Dhingra, A.K. [ed.] [DuPont, Wilmington, DE (United States)]; PB: 1464 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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