NICOP - Failure initiation and propagation in transiently loading composite marine panels
Abstract
The focus of this research programme is the failure mechanics of dynamically loaded composite ship hull panels. It will develop a much more detailed understanding of the loads and resulting failure mechanisms for composite ship constructions subjected to slamming impacts and establish and validate predictive models utilising multi- dimensional failure criteria. This will include determining the effects of hull shape and curvature, boundary conditions, panel flexibility and aspect ratio, experimentally characterising the failure mechanics of skin and core constituent materials, and improving and validating more computationally efficient modelling techniques with relevant failure criteria. In addition to significant improvements in reliability, performance and damage tolerance, this research provides far-reaching possibilities of identifying new structural concepts to create much lighter higher performance marine vessels. The research will also directly underpin development of slamming mitigation approaches, with particular relevance to small combatant craft.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N629091512067
Entities
People
- Mark Battley
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Auckland