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: Received: 31 March 2017 / Approved: 31 March 2017 / Online: 31 March 2017 (11:13:27 CEST)
How to cite:
Chen, P.; Liu, C. Optimization Simulation of the Light Aircraft’s Cockpit Made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites. Preprints2017, 2017030233. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201703.0233.v1
Chen, P.; Liu, C. Optimization Simulation of the Light Aircraft’s Cockpit Made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites. Preprints 2017, 2017030233. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201703.0233.v1
Chen, P.; Liu, C. Optimization Simulation of the Light Aircraft’s Cockpit Made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites. Preprints2017, 2017030233. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201703.0233.v1
APA Style
Chen, P., & Liu, C. (2017). Optimization Simulation of the Light Aircraft’s Cockpit Made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201703.0233.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Chen, P. and Chia-Hung Liu. 2017 "Optimization Simulation of the Light Aircraft’s Cockpit Made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201703.0233.v1
Abstract
Due to the demands of personal travels and entertainments, light airplanes and small business aircrafts are developing rapidly. Light airplane structure is simple; however, it lacks crashworthiness design, especially the considerations on the impact of energy absorption. Therefore, in an event of accident, significant damage to passengers will be usually incurred. Airplanes made of composite materials structurally have high specific strength and good aerodynamic configuration. These materials have become the primary choice for new airplane development. This study mainly explores the topology optimization analysis of the light aircraft’s cockpit made of carbon fiber reinforced composites. This paper compares the compression amounts in the original models of composite material and aluminum alloy fuselages with the models after optimization during the crash-landing, in order to investigate the safety of fuselages made of different materials after structural optimization under the dynamic crashing. This study found that the energy absorbed by the aluminum alloy fuselage during crash-landing is still higher than that by the carbon fiber reinforced composites fuselage. On the other hand, the aluminum alloy fuselage after topology optimization could have an energy absorption capability enhanced by 40%, as compared to the that of the original model of aluminum alloy fuselage.
Keywords
light aircraft; crashworthiness; topology optimization; composites materials; finite element analysis
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Materials Science and Technology
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