04.1 - Aerospace Grade Materials, Structural Analysis, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSITE ADVANCED JOINT FOR ULTRA LIGHT AEROSPACE PLATFORMS
A. Polla, Politecnico di Torino; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Italy; G. Frullaš, E. Cestinoš, R. Das˛, P. Marzocca˛; šPolitecnico di Torino, Italy ;˛Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
The proposed research activity has evaluated the elastic and explicit failure behaviour of composite bolted joints subjected to quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions. A High fidelity shell-cohesive progressive damage failure analysis (PDFA) method has been applied to numerically reconstruct the physical performances of selected samples based on two different mechanical configurations.