Design and commission of an experimental test rig to apply a full-scale pressure load on composite sandwich panels representative of an aircraft secondary structure

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Crump, D A ^a   Dulieu Barton, J M ^a   Savage, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GE AVIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite structure; Full field optical strain measurement techniques; Full scale testing; Pressure loading

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CYCLIC LOADS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; LOADS (FORCES); OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS; THERMOELASTICITY;

COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS; COMPOSITE SANDWICHES; D. DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC); FULL-SCALE TESTING; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL STRAIN MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE LOADING; THERMOELASTIC STRESS ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77950278334     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/21/1/015108     Document Type: Article

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