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Niessink, M.J. (author)
Key technological challenges within the field of aeronautical engineering drive the design of wings to become increasingly lighter and more flexible. The added flexibility increases the influence of aeroelastic effects, which need to be incorporated in the preliminary design phase. To this end an aeroelastic tailoring tool for composite wing...
master thesis 2016
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Heijmer, M.B.M. (author)
An accurate corner strength modelling method is required at Fokker Aerostructures to design canisters (missile launch tubes) with rounded corners for an internal pressure load case. To this end a combination of experiments and calculation methods has been developed that enable to predict the corner strength more accurately. Internal pressure...
master thesis 2016
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Cabot Talens, E. (author)
This MSc thesis addresses the study of buckling and post-buckling of composite plates with elastic restraints at the edges and under any combination of in-plane loading, aiming to solve the plate response in stiffened panel structures. The implemented solutions are based on thin plate theory for mid-plane symmetric plates. The governing...
master thesis 2016
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Heuijerjans, R. (author)
master thesis 2016
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De Baerdemaeker, J.C.A. (author)
Following the EU-28 targets, in 2050 a reduction in total energy consumption of 70% compared to the 2008 consumption is required driven by weight reduction in the road transportation industry. Because of the high specific strength and stiffness of composite materials, introduction of advanced composites in the vehicle design is observed. However...
master thesis 2016
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Laan, R.P.J. (author)
Engineers are still looking for ways to improve the performance of materials used in aircraft. A major step was going from metal parts to laminates in order to save weight significantly. Those laminates existed of fibres with a constant orientation, and became laminates with changing fibre directions. Variable stiffness laminates (VSL) are used...
master thesis 2016
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Van Hoorn, N. (author)
For failure in composite materials the fracture mechanisms at the microscopic scale, such as matrix cracking, fiber cracking, fiber-matrix debonding or combinations thereof determine the growth of crack at the macroscopic scale. The goal is to develop a simple failure criterion in terms of a bilinear Traction-Separation Law (TSL) for...
master thesis 2016
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Thedens, P. (author)
Membrane structures have a wide field of application in modern engineering due to their low weight-to-area ratio, which is especially exploited in kite design. The internal pressure of ram-air kites has to be well distributed over all cells in order to maintain the aerodynamic shape. By cutting holes in each rib the stagnated air can provide the...
master thesis 2015
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