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Development of Analysis/Test Certification Protocol for Crashworthiness of Composite-intensive Commercial Transport Fuselage
Composites Crashworthiness and Energy Absorption / Standardization of Numerical & Experimental Methods for Crashworthiness of Composite Materials
Identification and Validation of Analytical Chemistry Methods for Detecting Composite Surface Development and Evaluation of Fracture Mechanics Test Methods for Sandwich Composites / Damage Tolerance Test Method Development for Sandwich Composites
Compliance Methodology with FAA Requirements for Crashworthiness of Composite-Intensive Aircraft Structures
Safety and Precise Control of Cure Processes During Repair for Aircraft Structures
Characterizing Mechanical Property Variability in Ti6Al4V produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) Additive Manufacturing
Reliability–based Damage Tolerance Design / Development of Reliability–Based Damage Tolerant Structural Design Methodology
Development of Analysis/Test Certification Protocol for Crashworthiness of Composite-intensive Commercial Transport Fuselage
Contributed to composite crashworthiness (a) experimental database, (b) analysis methods, and (c) certification protocols that were developed and ultimately adopted by Boeing and used during certification of the B-787.
Evaluation of Parameters used in Progressive Damage Models
Motivation and Key Issues • The matrix-compression material-model used in Abaqus for carbon fiber laminates is computationally efficient but is physically unrealistic and does not correspond to actual material behavior. Objective • Determine the conditions under which the use of this unrealistic material model causes significant errors in predictions of carbon fiber laminate response to […]
Contamination and Moisture / Effect of Surface Contamination on Composite Bond Integrity
Probabilistic Fracture Analysis of Disbond in Bonded-Bolted Composite Structures
Test Method Development for Environmental Durability of Bonded Composite Joints
ASTM D 3762, ”Standard Test Method for Adhesive-Bonded Surface Durability of Aluminum (Wedge Test)” • Bonded aluminum double cantilever beam specimen is loaded by forcing a wedge between the adherends • Wedge is retained in the specimen • Assembly placed into a test environment – Aqueous environment – Elevated temperature • Further crack growth is […]
Notch Sensitivity of Composite Sandwich Structures
– Sandwich disbond test standards supporting the ongoing CMH-17 efforts for Rev. H – Evaluation of analysis used by industry for Category 2 and 3 large in-plane damage capability of sandwich structures, including complex structural loading – Development of building block test standards & related data analysis procedures to gain the structural data needed to […]