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Damage Characterization of Composite Stiffened Panel Subjected to Low Velocity Impact

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Structural Health Monitoring System for Synthetic, Hybrid and Natural Fiber Composites

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Composite materials have become popular due to their properties like high specific strength and high stiffness to weight ratio. Composites are found extensive applications in automobile, aerospace, defense equipments and other critical components. Composite plates are predominantly used as alternative materials to regular material because of its properties. In order to provide even better strength and resistance to deformation, stiffeners are attached to the composite plates thereby increasing the bending stiffness to a large extent. These stiffened panels have found principle application in aircraft wings, ship hulls and bridge decks. In this particular work, the low velocity impact on composite panel has been studied. Numerical models of composite plates and stiffened panels are analyzed by finite element analysis using ABAQUS/Explicit. Further study has made with different oblique impact angles like 90°, 60°, 45° and 30° are simulated and analyzed. Different parameters such as displacement, contact force, energy absorbed were compared for composite panel with and without stiffeners. It was noted that stiffened panels offer more resistance to deformation and absorb more energy due to high stiffness.

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The project presented in this article is supported by and Engineering Research Board and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (File Number: ECR/2017/000512).

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  1. Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

    Sai Indira, D. Mallikarjuna Reddy, Jayakrishna Kandasamy & M. Rajesh

  2. National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur, 831014, Jharkhand, India

    Vishesh Ranjan Kar

  3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    M. T. H. Sultan

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Indira, S., Mallikarjuna Reddy, D., Kandasamy, J., Rajesh, M., Kar, V.R., Sultan, M.T.H. (2021). Damage Characterization of Composite Stiffened Panel Subjected to Low Velocity Impact. In: Jawaid, M., Hamdan, A., Hameed Sultan, M.T. (eds) Structural Health Monitoring System for Synthetic, Hybrid and Natural Fiber Composites. Composites Science and Technology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8840-2_4

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