Browsing by Author "Arachchige, B."

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    Effect of bird-strike on sandwich composite aircraft wing leading edge
    (Elsevier, 2020-06-15) Arachchige, B.; Ghasemnejad, Hessam; Yasaee, Mehdi
    In this paper, a parametric numerical study is performed on the sandwich composite leading edge to analyse the effect of skin thickness, layups, impact velocities to compare the performance of the two different reinforcements within sandwich leading-edge structures. The detailed numerical analysis of a composite leading edge reinforced with honeycomb and foam is developed using explicit finite element software, LS-DYNA. Initially, the study proposes the most suitable equations of state for impact on the metallic leading edge for different bird geometries made from Lagrangian and SPH methods. All the numerical results are verified with available experimental data in the literature. The results will deliver a cost-efficient and accurate numerical model which assists aircraft designers in deciding the combination of design variables resulting in improved impact resistance for sandwich aircraft structures under soft body impacts.
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    Effect of variable core stiffness on the impact response of curved sandwich plates
    (Elsevier, 2018-06-02) Arachchige, B.; Ghasemnejad, Hessam
    An extensive analytical model to determine behaviour of curved sandwich plates with variable stiffness cores and face-sheets under low velocity impact with foam core is presented in this paper. A developed method is introduced to determine effective dynamic stiffness of the face-sheets and core with variable stiffness. A modified spring-mass-dashpot model was used to obtain the contact force function related to effective dynamic stiffness and effective dynamic frequency to determine the contact force histories by impact of a hemispherical-nose impactor. A parametric study was also performed to understand the effects of several factors such as impactor velocity, face-sheet thickness, core thickness (constant and variable stiffness), layup orientation and curvature on the contact force histories of curved sandwich plates. Different geometries of curved sandwich plates are analysed to study their performance under impact loading. Numerical analysis was performed in LS-DYNA to further validate with the developed analytical models.