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Crashworthiness optimization of aircraft hybrid energy absorbers enclosing honeycomb and foam structures
(ARC (Aerospace Research Central), 2017)
[Abstract:] This research proposes a new design for a vertical strut used in aircraft fuselages. It consists of a hollow aluminum vertical strut filled with a glass-fiber-reinforced polymer honeycomb-shaped structure and ...
Computational Techniques for Novel Design of Long-Span Bridges Considering Aeroelastic Phenomena
(ASCE, 2020)
[Abstract] Optimization techniques have demonstrated their capability to obtain economic and sustainable designs while meeting the performance and safety requirements in a number of engineering disciplines. In the bridge ...
Crushing analysis and multi-objective crashworthiness optimization of GFRP honeycomb-filled energy absorption devices
(Elsevier, 2014)
[Abstract:] Fuel efficiency and occupant safety are two of the most important concerns in the automotive industry nowadays. Encouraged by the importance of this field of study, this research attempts an improvement in the ...
Size and shape optimization of aluminum tubes with GFRP honeycomb reinforcements for crashworthy aircraft structures
(Elsevier, 2015)
[Abstract:] Crashworthiness optimization of aircraft and automotive structures has become one the main research targets for their respective leading industries. The following research proposes a new design of an aircraft’s ...
Bridge deck flutter derivatives: Efficient numerical evaluation exploiting their interdependence
(Elsevier, 2015-01)
Increasing the efficiency in the process to numerically compute the flutter derivatives of bridge deck sections is desirable to advance the application of CFD based aerodynamic design in industrial projects. In this article, ...
Testing and simulation of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg components under quasi-static loading
(Elsevier, 2020)
[Abstract:] An experimental and numerical study on the quasi-static loading of AlSi10Mg square boxes produced by selective laser melting (SLM) was carried out. The goal was to evaluate the applicability of common finite ...
Crashworthiness Analysis and Enhancement of Aircraft Structures Under Vertical Impact Scenarios
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020)
[Abstract] This research focuses on the crashworthiness study and enhancement of commercial aircraft
structures by developing crushable energy absorbers to work as vertical struts. To assess their
contribution on a ...
Verification Approaches for the 3D Static LES Simulations of the Stonecutters Bridge Deck
(WIT Press, 2021)
[Abstract] In computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, verification is the process of identifying both the spatial and the temporal discretisations providing relatively insensitive model results. The underlying goal ...
An Open-Source Framework for Aircraft Damage Simulation in Engine Failure Events
(Elsevier, 2022)
[Abstract] The aerospace industry demands designs capable of withstanding the simultaneous collapse of several structural elements. Examples of this failure scenario are propeller blade or uncontained engine rotor failures, ...