Delamination Propagation Study on Aircraft Composite Rib Subjected to Fatigue Loading

V Sivakumar, P Gautham Barathwaj… - Journal of Failure …, 2020 - Springer
A computational fatigue study of the propagation of delamination in a composite wing rib has
been conducted. A typical Boeing 747 rib having a circular hole with a semi-elliptical …

Crack initiation study on aircraft composite rib with semi-elliptical surface flaw

V Sivakumar, GB Kumar, A Gautham - Journal of Failure Analysis and …, 2015 - Springer
A parametric study on crack initiation was done by having different sizes of cracks at different
locations in a rib section of an aircraft using finite element techniques. A semi-elliptical …

Prediction of stress intensity factor on precracked composite wing rib made up of carbon-epoxy IM7-8552

V Sivakumar, KP Dani, S Sriram - Journal of Failure Analysis and …, 2016 - Springer
The stress intensity factor (SIF), K, is an important parameter to predict the stress state
(“stress intensity”) near the tip of a crack caused by a remote load or residual stresses. It can …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and FEM Studies on Secondary Co-Curing Reinforcement of Laminates

Y Wang, T Liu, P Jiang - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this study, a static tensile test of secondary co-cure reinforcement (SCR) of laminates
revealed the damage and fracture locations in the respective structure. Test results indicated …