Automated tow placement (ATP) and stitching of dry textile composite preforms followed by resin transfer molding (RTM) are being investigated by researchers at NASA LaRC and Douglas Aircraft Company as cost-effective manufacturing processes for obtaining damage tolerant fuselage and wing structures for transport aircraft. The Douglas work is being performed under a NASA contract entitled 'Innovative Composites Aircraft Primary Structures (ICAPS)'. Data are presented in this paper to assess the damage tolerance of ATP and RTM fuselage elements with stitched-on stiffeners from compression tests of impacted three-J-stiffened panels and from stiffener pull-off tests. Data are also presented to assess the damage tolerance of RTM wing elements which had stitched skin and stiffeners from impacted single stiffener and three blade-stiffened compression tests and stiffener pull-off tests.


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    Title :

    Test and Analysis Results for Composite Transport Fuselage and Wing Structures


    Contributors:
    J. W. Deaton (author) / S. M. Kullerd (author) / R. C. Madan (author) / V. L. Chen (author)

    Publication date :

    1992


    Size :

    25 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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