Skin-stringer separation in post-buckling of butt-joint stiffened thermoplastic composite panels

Two aeronautical thermoplastic composite stiffened panels are analysed and tested to investigate the buckling behaviour, the skin-stringer separation and the final failure mode. The panels are made of fast crystallising polyetherketoneketone carbon composite, have three stringers with an angled cap on one side, and are joined to the skin by a...

A Numerical Investigation of an Abnormal Phenomenon of Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) in a Cracked T-Butt Joint Accounting for Welding Effect

Industry design standards such as BS 7910 deployed some empirical formulas for the prediction of stress intensity factor (SIF) based on simulation results from traditional finite element method (FEM). However, such FEM simulation occasionally failed to convince people due to the large discrepancies compared with engineering practice. As a...

Numerical and experimental study on post-buckling skin-stringer separation in butt-joined stiffened thermoplastic panels

So far thermoset based composites have been used in primary aircraft structures, owing to their good performance and vast research on the subject. Recently thermoplastic based composites also gained an increased attention and there is a push towards adopting these for primary aircraft structures as well. This interest for thermoplastic...

Static and fatigue strength of an adhesive bonded CFRP butt-strap joint, the effects of stacking sequence and temperature