Design Guide Handbook for the Design of Ballistic-Damage-Tolerant Short- Fiber-Molded Aircraft Flight Control System Components. Volume I. Design Criteria, Concepts, Tooling, Fabrication, Testing, and Evaluation

Abstract

A design guide is presented to provide the design engineer, structural analyst, manufacturing engineer, and test engineer with the engineering know-how and technology to design, analyze, manufacture, and test ballistic-damage-tolerant flight control components molded of a short-fiber glass/ epoxy composite material. The design guide provides data on the effects of variable material parameters such as resin type, fiber length, fiber type, fiber finish, and composite thickness on the ballistic response of the composite (i.e., the extent of damage and residual load capacity after damage). Fully tumbled caliber .30 ball M2 and untumbled caliber .50 AP M2 projectiles were evaluated at several impact temperatures and velocities. Methods of design to maximize ballistic tolerance and design analysis techniques are described. Designs, tooling and manufacturing techniques, and a test and evaluation program for three typical flight control components are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0916279

Entities

People

  • Donald C. Cully
  • Theodore J. Boller

Organizations

  • Goodyear Aerospace

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Bearing Strength
  • Composite Materials
  • Fiber Reinforced Composites
  • Manufacturing
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanical Working
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Tensile Properties
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.