Analysis and design for a bird-strike resistance sandwich structure

Xiaopeng Shi, Yulong Li, Jun Liu, Yi Wang, Bing Wang, Lufeng Chen, Weiwei Sun

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Abstract

This paper provides a new design of a sandwich structure used in aircafts. To optimize this design, bird-strike tests are carried out on a sandwich structure made of a honeycomb core and aluminum cover plates, and a numerical model of this structure is developed with the explicit finite element program PAM-CRASH. The results of simulation, which describes the failure of the sandwich structure, agree well with test results. An improved structure is developed based on this result and bird-strike tests are carried out on the new structure. The reliability of the design is proved and the improved structure shows good behavior against bird-strikes in the tests.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)68-76
Number of pages9
JournalHangkong Xuebao/Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica
Volume33
Issue number1
StatePublished - Jan 2012

Keywords

  • Bird-strike
  • Bird-strike test
  • Honeycomb-based sandwich
  • Numerical simulation
  • PAM-CRASH

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