Advances in Engineering Advances in Engineering features breaking research judged by Advances in Engineering advisory team to be of key importance in the Engineering field. Papers are selected from over 10,000 published each week from most peer reviewed journals.
M. Nishikawa, Author, K. Hemmi, N. Takeda
Department of Nanomechanics, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aoba-yama, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan, Available online 27 November 2010.
Abstract
We presented a numerical simulation to address the impact-induced deformation and damage of composite plates subjected to soft-body, high-velocity impacts for application to the bird-strike problem of composite fan blades. A new stabilized contact algorithm was developed based on the Lagrange multiplier method to predict appropriate impact forces applied to the plate, in order to solve soft-body impact at high velocity without causing severe numerical instabilities. The bird-strike impact on composite fan blade was simply modeled by discussing the damage characteristics of a unidirectional composite plate. Combining the model of a soft-body impactor with an appropriate contact algorithm, we could capture the transition from the global bending mode at low velocity to the local deformation mode at high velocity, enabling a discussion of the ballistic limit using the damage analysis of the laminate. As the impact velocity increased, the damage in the composite changed from bending-induced matrix-cracking to an intensive fiber-breakage mode causing local shear perforation. The damage mode transition allows us to detect the transition velocity as a ballistic limit, which is one of the critical factors for discussing the bird-strike resistance of composite fan blades.
Go to Journal
