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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
Cranfield University
Modelling of dynamic damage and failure in aluminium alloys
The dependency of the behaviour of aluminium alloy, of interest to aerospace applications under dynamic loading, was experimentally investigated and a material model developed, validated and implemented into the commercial non-linear finite element program DYNA3D. The development allows for more accurate analyses of bird strike and aircraft crashworthiness. The work was initially sponsored by AIRBUS (£100,000) (Dr Richard.Rigbey@airbus.com) and the European Commission (£210,000) project MUSCA, contract No. 516155. The model has also been successfully applied to automotive crashworthiness with Jaguar Land Rover. (Dr. Tayeb Zeguer - tzeguer@jaguarlandrover.com)