{"title":"Strength and stability analysis of composite inverted conical structure","authors":"Surekha Gnanasekar, B. Santhosh, Vasudevan Rajamohan, Vivek Raj, Hariharan Elangovan, Venugopal Barathan","doi":"10.1007/s10999-024-09723-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study focuses on the numerical and experimental investigation of a hat-stiffened composite inverted conical structure to identify its strength and stability under axial compressive loading conditions. A new design for the 3rd stage adapter with few changes in the present polar satellite launch vehicles launch vehicle is considered. An inverted conical structure with a hat-stiffened type of construction is used to obtain the higher bending stiffness. Both high-modulus and low-modulus uni-directional carbon prepreg are considered for the inverted conical structure. The experimental and numerical study is carried out on a hat-stiffened panel with a low-modulus carbon fiber prepreg material. Using the commercial software CATIA<sup>®</sup>, the geometry of the inverted conical structure and hat-stiffened panel is generated. The structural analysis is carried out using MSC NASTRAN/PATRAN<sup>®</sup> to determine the maximum load-carrying capacity, maximum stress and displacement values. It was observed that the strain obtained experimentally on the surface of the stiffened panel at twenty-six points using the 26-strain gauges shows good correlations with those obtained numerically.</p>","PeriodicalId":593,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10999-024-09723-7","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The present study focuses on the numerical and experimental investigation of a hat-stiffened composite inverted conical structure to identify its strength and stability under axial compressive loading conditions. A new design for the 3rd stage adapter with few changes in the present polar satellite launch vehicles launch vehicle is considered. An inverted conical structure with a hat-stiffened type of construction is used to obtain the higher bending stiffness. Both high-modulus and low-modulus uni-directional carbon prepreg are considered for the inverted conical structure. The experimental and numerical study is carried out on a hat-stiffened panel with a low-modulus carbon fiber prepreg material. Using the commercial software CATIA®, the geometry of the inverted conical structure and hat-stiffened panel is generated. The structural analysis is carried out using MSC NASTRAN/PATRAN® to determine the maximum load-carrying capacity, maximum stress and displacement values. It was observed that the strain obtained experimentally on the surface of the stiffened panel at twenty-six points using the 26-strain gauges shows good correlations with those obtained numerically.
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Mechanism(s) Design;
Design against Failure;
Design for Manufacturing;
Design of Ultralight Structures;
Design for a Clean Environment;
Impact and Crashworthiness;
Microelectronic Packaging Systems.
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Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures;
Micromechanical Modelling of Composites;
Damage Characterisation of Advanced/Traditional Materials;
Alternative Use of Traditional Materials in Design;
Functionally Graded Materials;
Failure Analysis: Fatigue and Fracture;
Multiscale Modelling Concepts and Methodology;
Interfaces, interfacial properties and characterisation.
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Structural Optimisation;
Optimisation Algorithms in Design;
Nonlinear Mechanics in Design;
Novel Numerical Tools in Design;
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FEM, BEM and Hybrid Methods;
Integrated Computer Aided Design;
Computational Failure Analysis;
Coupled Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Designs.