Aircraft structures may endure several kinds of impacts such as hail, tyre debris and bird impacts. Hail impacts are a serious threat for aircraft engines. Indeed, they may induce severe damage such as a substantial distortion in blades. The fragmentation process is a main concern in many engineering applications such as preventing flameouts of aircraft engines. The authors of this article are interested in measuring the critical impact velocity for ice fragmentation. Precisely, a dropweight technique was applied to study the ice ball impacts on glass plates. The influence of ice ball temperature, diameter and impact angle is also investigated. The after-impact ice ball state was found to be classified into two cases: an altered state and a non-altered state. The critical impact velocity is defined as the minimum impact velocity for which the ice ball is altered after impact or the maximum impact velocity for which the ice ball is not altered after impact. The experimental results are analysed by a model, assuming that the alteration regime is observed as soon as the ice ball normal kinetic energy is higher than a critical value of its deformation energy. This model depends on one parameter which is determined in this study. This last result is the major achievement of this article as there is almost no measurement of this parameter in the literature.


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    Title :

    Critical impact velocity for ice fragmentation




    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 16 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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