Battle damage repair of a helicopter composite frame-skin junction. Part 1: Depot repair

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1433-1446

  Wang, J ^a   Gunnion, A ^b   Baker, A ^a,b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

A. Composite structures; C. Finite element analysis; D. Mechanical testing; Helicopter battle damage repair

Indexed keywords

A. COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; AUSTRALIA; BATTLE DAMAGE; C. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; COMPOSITE FRAME; D. MECHANICAL TESTING; DESIGN APPROACHES; EUROCOPTERS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOAD TESTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL TESTING; MILITARY HELICOPTERS; REENGINEERING; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SKIN; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

REPAIR;

EID: 68349147980     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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