04.1 - Aerospace Grade Materials, Structural Analysis, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
MULTIAXIAL TESTING OF AERONAUTIC COMPOSITE STRUCTURES AT INTERMEDIATE SCALE
B. Castanié¹, J.-C. Passieux¹, J.-N. Périé¹, C. Bouvet¹, J.-E. Dufour¹, J. Serra¹; ¹Institut Clément Ader, France
Achievements of a multiaxial test bench called “VERTEX” are presented. It allows to load a specimen of 500 x 500 mm2 under shear, tension or compression and internal pressure. Tests were conducted on aeronautic composite panels to study large notches, combined loading after impact, wrinkling and buckling of sandwich panels.