Design and fabrication of hat-shaped stiffened panel by resin transfer molding method
- Southern Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Hat-shaped stiffened composite panels were fabricated by resin transfer molding (RTM) process. As application of these compression load bearing panels in aircraft wings and fuselage increases, this promising manufacturing technique would contribute towards the goal of attaining reduced part counts and cheaper manufacturing costs. Rigid foam which increases the structural efficiency of panels was utilized in this process. Also Balsa wood was considered as an alternative to the rigid foam and employed as a permanent mandrel in fabricating one of the panels. Buckling analysis result by finite element method and modified closed form solution suggested by Agarwal et al. (1974) agree. Once this process is fine-tuned, it would provide a cheaper method of fabricating composite hat-stiffened panels.
- OSTI ID:
- 357775
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980213-; TRN: IM9932%%120
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1998 energy sources technology conference, Houston, TX (United States), Feb 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1998 ASME energy sources technology conference (ETCE`98); PB: [1170] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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