24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-8.7.4

EVALUATION OF FINITE ELEMENT MODELING METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DESIGN OF CRASHWORTHY COMPOSITE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE

D. Delsart, D. Joly, M. Mahe*, G. Winkelmuller**
ONERA-Lille; *AIRBUS France; **MECALOG, France

Keywords: aircraft, composite, crash, simulation

Within the European Program “Commercial Aircraft Design For Crash Survivability” [CRASURV] (BRPR-CT96-0207, 1996-2000) aiming at developing methodologies to design crashworthy composite commercial aircraft fuselages, a 2 frames section based on the A321 AIRBUS standard dimensions was manufactured by AIRBUS France, in order to be crash-tested at the Toulouse Aeronautical Test Centre [CEAT]. Results were compared with finite element simulations.

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