Ageing aircraft fuselages require safe and damage-tolerant repair techniques. Bonded fibre-metal laminates (FML) combine a small mismatch in coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) with the cracked skin, excellent fatigue properties and high strength, and are therefore promising materials for bonded repairs. This paper focuses on local stress concentrations in the fuselage skin at the edge of a bonded FML repair, and presents analytical, FEM and experimental results of single and multiple repairs in close proximity. Repairs on both flat uniaxially loaded skins and curved biaxially loaded skins were considered. The main objective of this research is the validation of the crack patching design program CalcuRep. The model on which CalcuRep is based, the 'Rose model', was extended and used for the analytical prediction of skin stresses in the specimens. It appeared that, in order to prevent fatigue critical stresses in the skin next to the patch, one should carefully choose the patch material and geometry. Furthermore, in a specific repair configuration with multiple patches, a minimum separation is required to prevent high stress concentrations in the skin between the patches. It was confirmed that, in most cases, a biaxial stress field has a favourable effect on the stress in the skin along the patch edge, compared with the uniaxial situation. With both the FEM and the extended Rose model, the stresses in the skin next to the patch could be predicted with sufficient accuracy. It is the intention to implement the extended Rose model in a new version of CalcuRep.
Stress concentrations around bonded repairs
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures ; 23 , 3 ; 263-276
2000
14 Seiten, 12 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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