24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-5.6.2

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION OF DAMAGE BEHAVIOUR OF FIBRE METAL LAMINATES

P. Linde, J. Pleitner, H. de Boer*, J. Sinke**
Airbus, Hamburg, Germany; *Advanced Lightweight Engineering, Delft, Netherlands; **Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft Technical University, Netherlands

Keywords: fibre metal laminates, fracture energy, numerical model, damage behaviour

Fibre Metal Laminates (FML) are becoming important as aircraft fuselage skin material as an alternative to monolithic aluminium. FML consists of a built-up material, comprising thin layers of aluminium alternated by layers of glass fibres. The paper deals with a microscopic model based on the finite element method for simulating the damage behaviour of FML.

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