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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 432370.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32370

• Material Engineering and Mechanical Manufacturing • Previous Articles    

Comprehensive evaluation of mechanical and electromagnetic repairability of damaged microwave-absorbing honeycomb structure

Leilei YAN1,2, Jian HU1, Ruilin HUANG1, Linhao CHENG1, Maoyuan LI3, Xitao ZHENG1,2()   

  1. 1.School of Aeronautics,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072,China
    2.National Key Laboratory of Strength and Structural Integrity,Xi’an 710072,China
    3.Beijing System Design Institute of Electro-Mechanic Engineering,Beijing 100854,China
  • Received:2025-06-04 Revised:2025-07-04 Accepted:2025-07-28 Online:2025-08-12 Published:2025-08-11
  • Contact: Xitao ZHENG E-mail:zhengxt@nwpu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(12372141)

Abstract:

Microwave-absorbing honeycomb is a commonly used Electromagnetic (EM) wave absorbing material of advanced aircraft, but damage during service will lead to degradation in both EM wave absorbing and mechanical performance. The vertical reflectivity and in-plane compression properties of repaired microwave-Absorbing Honeycomb Sandwich (AHS) were studied by simulation and experiments, and a new evaluation index for the EM repairability of damaged AHS, defined as the maximum difference between the repaired and undamaged structure, is proposed in this paper. The effects of bonded repair technology on the mechanical and EM repairability of AHS are analyzed, and a comprehensive evaluation on mechanical and EM repairability is made based on the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The results show that both patch and scarf repair will lead to an increase of structural reflectivity and the shift of absorbing center frequency to low frequency. The evaluation index for the EM repairability increases with the increase of repair area. The mechanical repairability is better than EM repairability after patch and scarf repair. Single-sided scarf repair with scarf slope of 20∶1 is the repair scheme with the best mechanical and EM comprehensive repairability.

Key words: microwave-absorbing honeycomb, repair technology, electromagnetic property, mechanical property, damage

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