Finite Element Analysis and Experimentation of an Icosahedron Frame under Compression

Abstract

A nonlinear analysis of a 3D icosahedron frame was conducted using ABAQUS, under a compressive load in which collapse occurs. The frame was created in SolidWorks using the material properties of the 3D plastic building material VeroBlue. Two considerations were made: the computational features of the frame, and the comparison between the experimental solution to the numerical solution. Two studies were also considered in this research: The first study was a comparison between the seven-inch and the four-inch icosahedron model with identical weight to buoyancy ratios; and the second study was a comparison between the seven-inch icosahedrons frame, with the experimental results of the data that was collected. The results of both studies are analyzed to compare against and verify the results of numerical computational model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 17, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621751

Entities

People

  • Mohammed M. Alghofaily

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Balloons
  • Buoyancy
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Nonlinear Analysis
  • Physical Properties
  • Stresses
  • Tensile Modulus
  • Tensile Strength
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Aerospace Research.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Electrical Engineering