| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R12749/01 |
| Title: |
Efficient Modelling Strategies For Aircraft and Automotive Structural Joints |
| Principal Investigator: |
Price, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Aeronautical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Queen's University of Belfast |
| Scheme: |
Fast Stream |
| Starts: |
01 September 2001 |
Ends: |
28 February 2003 |
Value (£): |
60,785
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The programme will undertake detailed Finite element Analyses of a selection of typical joints in aircraft structure. The basic response of these joints will be assessed for standard loading e.g. the rotation of skin and stringer at the edge of a panel. This basic data will then be used to obtain an equivalent stiffness which could be inserted into coarse design models. For example the interface between a stringer and the skin panel could be represented as a series of springs which will respond as the detailed riveted flange would.The initial work will therefore require a study of standard aircraft joints to select the cases for study. Once the FE study has been completed the representative models will be used in a simple design study of a fuselage section to illustrate the effect of changing the stiffness of joints on the global behaviour of the model.
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