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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (1): 230541.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.30541

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Dual scale ply design of composite aircraft auxiliary fuel tank

Chen LIU1, Chen HE1, Wenming GAO1, Xianfeng WANG1(), Lin JIANG1, Shuo CHENG2, Yong LI1, Jun XIAO1   

  1. 1.School of Materials Science and Technology,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    2.AVIC Hefei Jianghang Aircraft Equipment Co,Ltd,Hefei 230041
  • Received:2024-04-17 Revised:2024-05-23 Accepted:2024-06-04 Online:2025-01-15 Published:2024-06-11
  • Contact: Xianfeng WANG E-mail:wangxf@nuaa.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    FCX-3 Composite Box Design and Development (YY05);Beijing Research Center Civil Aircraft Pre research Special Project: Research on Elastic Cutting Skin Wire Bundle Traction Forming Technology(COMAC-BYZX-2023-25);Research and Development of Short Range Automated Fiber Placement Equipment for Composite Blades of Aircraft Engines(BE2023014-4)

Abstract:

Taking the aircraft composite auxiliary fuel tank as the research object, a “global-local” dual scale layup design method was developed to optimize and analyze the global and local layup of a closed ellipsoidal aircraft auxiliary fuel tank with multi-scale characteristics. Firstly, based on the characteristic structure of the fuel tank, a mechanical analysis method for the fuel tank structure was developed, and a mechanical model for carbon nanotube composite materials with lightning protection function was constructed. The load response of the skin rib layer structure under equivalent static strength and impact conditions was comprehensively analyzed, and a ply sequence optimization method was proposed for the optimal ply scheme to complete the preliminary ply optimization. Then, considering the uneven stress and interlayer/resin rich damage failure in the local variable thickness intercalation zone, a micro mechanical model of the variable thickness specimen was established using cohesive elements and delamination modeling strategy. Based on the “sub-modeling” and “shell-solid” coupling technology, a local variable thickness structural solution model for the auxiliary fuel tank was established, and a collaborative improvement of the overall structural layer design scheme for the stress in the local variable thickness zone was proposed. Finally, based on the global-local ply optimization design scheme, static, mode, and impact dynamic analyses were conducted to complete the strength validation of the global structure of the auxiliary fuel tank.

Key words: composite materials, ply design, aircraft auxiliary fuel tank, multi-scale, variable thickness intercalation

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