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A Study on Response of a Contoured Composite Panel with Co-cured Stiffeners Under Transient Loading

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Composite materials are emerging to be the best applied materials for aerospace applications. With rapid improvement in computational facilities, it is now possible to design the best composite lay up for a particular kind of application. This paper presents the development of a Finite Element model of a contoured composite panel with co-cured stiffeners using Finite Element Simulation. Commercial package ANSYS 15.0 is used for this study. Such half contoured panels find wide application in Aerospace industry. The panel is hinged at one of the ends and dynamically loaded at the other end over a relatively small surface area by transverse load. The response of the panel is observed for variation in stresses, deflections and failure criteria. The panel is expected to rotate about the hinge point by 4° from the initial point. The transient response of the composite panel has been observed for expected load and two test load cases and results reported in this paper. Analysis has become useful input for the design of panel.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to Director DRDL and Technology Director, DOFS for their support in carrying out this work. Authors are also thankful to the Project Director and Pyro Division and project group for providing project requirements and inputs.

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  1. Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad, 500 058, Telangana, India

    Shahnaaz Begum & Prakash Chand Jain

  2. National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, 560 017, Karnataka, India

    Siddu Venkatesh

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Begum, S., Jain, P.C. & Venkatesh, S. A Study on Response of a Contoured Composite Panel with Co-cured Stiffeners Under Transient Loading. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C 99, 581–588 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-016-0328-8

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