Fatigue Life of Composite Structures in Extreme Environments

Abstract

Prediction of the dynamic response and the fatigue life of structures, i.e. panels, subjected to both high temperatures/ thermal gradients and high level acoustic excitations. The determination of reliable approximations of the statistics of the panel response to the random acoustic excitation will be accomplished by relying on two separate equivalent linearization strategies. The first method uses a Gaussian process. The second method relies on a mean equal to the buckled states and the panel response is obtained as the sum of zero mean fluctuations around these positions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436116

Entities

People

  • Marc P. Mignolet
  • P. C. Chen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Science
  • Contracts
  • Data Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamic Response
  • Fatigue Life
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Information Science
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Models
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Temperature Gradients

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.
  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.