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Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry
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Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry

by P. E. Irving, Costas Soutis
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
17h 50m
English
Woodhead Publishing
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Design and testing of crashworthy aerospace composite components

A.F. Johnson1, R.S. Thomson2, M. David3,  and M.W. Joosten4     1Composites Consultant, Stuttgart, Germany     2Advanced Composite Structures Australia, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia     3German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stuttgart, Germany     4RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Abstract

The chapter presents the current state of the art in design, analysis and test of crashworthy composite aircraft structures. It describes a methodology based on the test/simulation pyramid adopted for aircraft structures in which test and analysis methods for crashworthy structures are developed and validated on structural elements and aircraft subfloor structures. Special attention is given ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780857095237