Design and modeling of selective reinforcements for integral aircraft structures

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2323-2331

  Boscolo, Marco ^a,b,c   Allegri, Giuliano ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b,c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Aerospace Engineering Department

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES;

FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; MODELING APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

CRACKS;

EID: 51749094192     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.35712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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