27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-8.3.1

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DAMAGE BEHAVIOUR OF TEXTILE REINFORCED COMPOSITES IN AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES

P. Linde, P. Middendorf*, B. van den Broucke*, H. De Boer**
Airbus, Germany; *EADS IW-G, Germany; **ALE, Netherlands

Keywords: textile reinforcement, computer tomography, representative volume element, multi scale model, user subroutine

Due to their versatility, able to carry loads in different directions, and in design replacing several joined parts, 3D textile reinforced composites gain in importance. A numerical model simulating the damage behaviour of 3D textile reinforced composites is developed and implemented in ABAQUS. Numerical results are compared to experimental data.

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