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Assessment of Intralaminar Progressive Damage and Failure Analysis Methods Using an Efficient Evaluation Framework

IMRAN HYDER, JOSEPH SCHAEFER, BRIAN JUSTUSSON, STEVE WANTHAL, FRANK LEONE, CHERYL ROSE

Abstract


Reducing the timeline for development and certification for composite structures has been a long standing objective of the aerospace industry. This timeline can be further exacerbated when attempting to integrate new fiber-reinforced composite materials due to the large number of testing required at every level of design. Computational progressive damage and failure analysis (PDFA) attempts to mitigate this effect; however, new PDFA methods have been slow to be adopted in industry since material model evaluation techniques have not been fully defined. This study presents an efficient evaluation framework which uses a piecewise verification and validation (V&V) approach for PDFA methods. Specifically, the framework is applied to evaluate PDFA research codes within the context of intralaminar damage. Methods are incrementally taken through various V&V exercises specifically tailored to study PDFA intralaminar damage modeling capability. Finally, methods are evaluated against a defined set of success criteria to highlight successes and limitations.


DOI
10.12783/asc2017/15405

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