This document summarizes research on modeling bird-strike events using LS-DYNA's Lagrangian formulation. Key points:
- Bird-strikes pose safety risks and costs to the aviation industry, motivating efforts to model and predict damage through simulation.
- The bird is modeled as a fluid, and the Lagrangian method tracks material deformation. Initial validation involved a beam impact problem, with results within 2.5% of analytical solutions.
- Bird-strike events were divided into impacts on rigid and deformable plates at different angles, modeled after existing literature. Peak pressures and forces from simulations were within 10% of test data.
- The developed Lagrangian approach is suitable for modeling bird-strikes to predict
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics for Bird-Strike Analysis Using LS-DYNAdrboon
In this second of a three-paper sequence, we developed a standard work using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) approach in LS-DYNA and compared the results against those the Lagrangian model and available experimental results. First, the SPH model was validated against a one-dimensional beam centered impact’s analytical solution and the results are within 3% error. Bird-strike events were divided into three separate problems: frontal impact on rigid flat plate, 0 and 30 deg impact on deformable tapered plate. The bird model was modeled as a cylindrical fluid. We successfully identified the most influencing parameters when using SPH in LS-DYNA. The case for 0 deg tapered plate impact shows little bird-plate interaction because the bird is sliced in two parts and the results are within 5% difference from the test data available in the literature, which is an improvement over the Lagrangian model. Conclusion: The developed SPH approach is suitable for bird-strike events within 10% error.
Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian Approach for Bird-Strike Analysis Using LS-DYNAdrboon
In this third and last sequence paper we focus on developing a model to simulate bird-strike events using Lagrange and Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian (ALE) in LS-DYNA. We developed a standard work for the two-and three-dimensional models for bird-strike events. We modeled the bird as a cylinder fluid and the fan blade as a plate. The case study was that of frontal impact of soft-bodies on rigid plates based on the Lagrangian Bird Model. Results show very good agreement with available test data and within 7% error when compared with the Lagrange and SPH methods. The developed ALE approach is suitable for bird-strike events in tapered plates.
Galerkin’s indirect variational method in elastic stability analysis of all e...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Hyperelastic material models in finite element analysis of polymersKartik Srinivas
This paper describes the Hyperelastic material models and strain energy functions used in the finite element analysis (FEA) of polymers. Material characterization testing
Characteristic orthogonal polynimial application to galerkin indirect variati...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics for Bird-Strike Analysis Using LS-DYNAdrboon
In this second of a three-paper sequence, we developed a standard work using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) approach in LS-DYNA and compared the results against those the Lagrangian model and available experimental results. First, the SPH model was validated against a one-dimensional beam centered impact’s analytical solution and the results are within 3% error. Bird-strike events were divided into three separate problems: frontal impact on rigid flat plate, 0 and 30 deg impact on deformable tapered plate. The bird model was modeled as a cylindrical fluid. We successfully identified the most influencing parameters when using SPH in LS-DYNA. The case for 0 deg tapered plate impact shows little bird-plate interaction because the bird is sliced in two parts and the results are within 5% difference from the test data available in the literature, which is an improvement over the Lagrangian model. Conclusion: The developed SPH approach is suitable for bird-strike events within 10% error.
Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian Approach for Bird-Strike Analysis Using LS-DYNAdrboon
In this third and last sequence paper we focus on developing a model to simulate bird-strike events using Lagrange and Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian (ALE) in LS-DYNA. We developed a standard work for the two-and three-dimensional models for bird-strike events. We modeled the bird as a cylinder fluid and the fan blade as a plate. The case study was that of frontal impact of soft-bodies on rigid plates based on the Lagrangian Bird Model. Results show very good agreement with available test data and within 7% error when compared with the Lagrange and SPH methods. The developed ALE approach is suitable for bird-strike events in tapered plates.
Galerkin’s indirect variational method in elastic stability analysis of all e...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Hyperelastic material models in finite element analysis of polymersKartik Srinivas
This paper describes the Hyperelastic material models and strain energy functions used in the finite element analysis (FEA) of polymers. Material characterization testing
Characteristic orthogonal polynimial application to galerkin indirect variati...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
Experimental and numerical analysis of elasto-plastic behaviour of notched sp...IJERA Editor
The objective of the work was to estimate the elasto-plastic stress and strain behaviour at the root of the notch of
an Al 6061 plate undergoing tensile and compressive cyclic loading by both experimental and numerical
methods. This attempt to measured initial elasto-plastic stresses experimentally then verified by numerically.
The various Kt values such as 2, 4 and 6 specimens were subjected to tensile test using a computerised universal
testing machine. Numerical approach associated with body discretization and developed finite element model
with sufficient degree of freedom to analyses elasto-plastic analysis of notched specimen. Experimental results
show that analysis of three Kt notched specimens had similar behaviour of elasto-plastic behaviour but different
magnitude. The experimental results compare well with the numerical results which are obtained during finite
element analysis of notched specimens.
Determination of Stress Intensity Factor for a Crack Emanating From a Rivet ...IJMER
Modern aircraft structures are designed using a damage tolerance philosophy. This design philosophy envisions sufficient strength and structural integrity of the aircraft to sustain major damage and to avoid catastrophic failure. The rivet holes location are one of the stress concentration region in fuselage skin. The current study includes a curved sheet with rivet holes is considered as part of the
fuselage skin. During the service life of aircraft fatigue cracks will emanate from rivet holes simultaneously as they experience identical stresses due to internal pressure. In fracture mechanics, Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) is an important criterion to evaluate the impact of crack as the magnitude of SIF determines the propagation of crack. The objective is to investigate the SIF for crack emanating from one rivet hole and approaching another using isplacement Extrapolation Method (DEM) in F.E.M that would aid in the determination of the critical nature of such cracks.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Numerical modeling of the welding defect influence on fatigue life of the wel...inventy
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
APPLICATION OF COMPUTER FOR ANALYZING WORLD CO2 EMISSIONIJCSEA Journal
Global climate change due to CO2 emissions is an issue of international concern that primarily attributed
to fossil fuels. In this study, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for analyzing world CO2 emission based on the
global energy consumption. Linear and non-linear forms of equations were developed to forecast CO2
emission using Genetic Algorithm (GA) based on the global oil, natural gas, coal, and primary energy
consumption figures. The related data between 1980 and 2010 were used, partly for installing the models
(finding candidates of best weighting factors for each model (1980-2003)) and partly for testing the models
(2004–2010). Global CO2 emission is forecasted up to year 2030.
Measuring Plastic Properties from Sharp Nanoindentation: A Finite-Element Stu...CrimsonPublishersRDMS
Measuring Plastic Properties from Sharp Nanoindentation: A Finite-Element Study on the Uniqueness of Inverse Solutions by Fabian Pöhl* in Crimson Publishers: Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals
Size effect of plain concrete beams–an experimental studyeSAT Journals
Abstract
The paper analyses the size dependency of the fracture energy (GF) and the effective length of fracture process zone (Cf) of concrete
determined as per the Bazant’s Size effect method and RILEM Work-of-fracture methods. The fracture parameters (GF,Cf) are
determined by measuring the maximum loads of geometrically similar notched plain concrete (M25) specimens of different sizes in a
size ratio of 1:5 with different pre-cast notch depths (a/d=0.15, 0.30 and 0.45) under three point bending through load-deflection
curves. In each notch depth ratio, 15 beams are cast and tested with 03 similar specimens in each size of the beams. Total beams
tested are 45.The variation of both the fracture energy and the effective length of fracture process zone as a function of the specimen
size and notch depth is determined using Bazant’s Size effect method and RILEM Work-of-fracture method. Fracture energy and
Fracture process zone length determined by Size effect method are found to be decreasing with the increasing notch depth ratios.
Fracture energy calculated using Work-of-fracture method is increasing with the increase in size of specimen and decreasing with the
increasing notch depth ratios.
Performance of Soft Soil Stabilized by Fly Ash with Natural Fiber Reinforceme...AM Publications
The use of clay as a landfill cover system is a choice of alternative materials that are widely used in almost all the existing landfill system in Indonesia and in the world. In addition to the relatively low cost of procurement is also available in almost all regions in Indonesia. However, alternative reliable overburden landfills has not been much discussed and researched. The purpose of this study is to design an ideal final cover layer landfill technically and mechanically. The results showed that the addition of fly ash and palm oil fiber (POF) between 10% of fly ash and 0.5% of POF can enhance the mechanical value of soils. the compressive strength of soils increase from 39.4 kPa to 89.0 kPa or rose by 129%, decreasing the value of soil hydraulic conductivity is to be 1,2x10-7 from the initial value of 1,17x10-6 or decreased by 850.4%, increase in soil friction angle of 8.55° to 24 °, and lowering the soil liquid limit of 33.48% to 24.5%, decreasing of swelling potential of 8 % to only 1.5% at the end of the wetting cycle, reduce the cracking intensity factor (CIF) from 1.96% to zero cracks. Mechanical behavior is heavily influenced by the nature of fly ash which has of a small water absorption and change the water in the soil for the pozzolanic reaction and produce calcium hydrate silica (CSH), in which the reaction is to form granules (binder) in the soil so that the soil becomes dense and hard, while palm oil fiber have cellulose and lignin as dominant compounds that tend to have high water absorption but serves to strengthen the fiber tensile force between the fibers and the soils surface due to adhesion forces so that the soil is not easily collapse and reduce the potential shrinkages and cracking of the soils.
Study of Silica Fume Blended Concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment an...ijtsrd
The prime objective of this study is to design, analyze and optimize the silica fume blended concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment and to explore the practicability of Statistical mixture experiment in mix design of concrete containing the several components. The traditional mix design methods have drawbacks. Traditional method of mix design of concrete fails in designing the complex concrete mixture containing the cementitious materials, pozzolanic materials and several admixtures. Traditional methods are based on trial and error method in which effect of only one component can be determined. Trial and error does not provide the whole picture of concrete mixture. In this study, the statistical mixture design method is employed to analyze the effects of silica fume on 28 days compressive strength of concrete and to design and optimize the silica fume blended concrete. The components of concrete mixture are Cement, silica fume, water and aggregate. Total of 15 runs or design points are generated which are combinations of proportions and laboratory experiment is carried out on these design points and 28 days compressive strength is measured. Mathematical relationship is established between 28 days compressive strength and proportions of components using least square technique and then mathematical model is studied to analyze the effects of silica fume in concrete. Pankaj Kumar | M. C Paliwal ""Study of Silica Fume Blended Concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment and Optimizing of Compressive Strength of Cement Concrete"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25178.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/25178/study-of-silica-fume-blended-concrete-using-statistical-mixture-experiment-and-optimizing-of-compressive-strength-of-cement-concrete/pankaj-kumar
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Improving the Efficiency of Ratio Estimators by Calibration WeightingsPremier Publishers
It is observed that the performances of most improved ratio estimators depend on some optimality conditions that need to be satisfied to guarantee better estimator. This paper develops a new approach to ratio estimation that produces a more efficient class of ratio estimators that do not depend on any optimality conditions for optimum performance using calibration weightings. The relative performances of the proposed calibration ratio estimators are compared with a corresponding global [Generalized Regression (GREG)] estimator. Results of analysis showed that the proposed calibration ratio estimators are substantially superior to the traditional GREG-estimator with relatively small bias, mean square error, average length of confidence interval and coverage probability. In general, the proposed calibration ratio estimators are more efficient than all existing estimators considered in the study.
A Displacement-Potential Scheme to Stress Analysis of a Cracked Stiffened Pan...inventionjournals
This paper deals with an efficient analytical scheme for the analysis of stress and displacement fields of boundary-value problemsof plane elasticity with mixed boundary conditions and material discontinuity. More specifically, the mechanical behavior of a stiffened panel with an edge crack is analyzed under the influence of axial loading, using a new analytical scheme. Earlier mathematical models of elasticity were very deficient in handling the practical stress problems of solid mechanics. Analytical methods of solution have not gained that much popularity in the field of stress analysis, mainly because of the inability of dealing with mixed boundary conditions, irregular boundary shapes, and material discontinuity
Experimental and numerical analysis of elasto-plastic behaviour of notched sp...IJERA Editor
The objective of the work was to estimate the elasto-plastic stress and strain behaviour at the root of the notch of
an Al 6061 plate undergoing tensile and compressive cyclic loading by both experimental and numerical
methods. This attempt to measured initial elasto-plastic stresses experimentally then verified by numerically.
The various Kt values such as 2, 4 and 6 specimens were subjected to tensile test using a computerised universal
testing machine. Numerical approach associated with body discretization and developed finite element model
with sufficient degree of freedom to analyses elasto-plastic analysis of notched specimen. Experimental results
show that analysis of three Kt notched specimens had similar behaviour of elasto-plastic behaviour but different
magnitude. The experimental results compare well with the numerical results which are obtained during finite
element analysis of notched specimens.
Determination of Stress Intensity Factor for a Crack Emanating From a Rivet ...IJMER
Modern aircraft structures are designed using a damage tolerance philosophy. This design philosophy envisions sufficient strength and structural integrity of the aircraft to sustain major damage and to avoid catastrophic failure. The rivet holes location are one of the stress concentration region in fuselage skin. The current study includes a curved sheet with rivet holes is considered as part of the
fuselage skin. During the service life of aircraft fatigue cracks will emanate from rivet holes simultaneously as they experience identical stresses due to internal pressure. In fracture mechanics, Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) is an important criterion to evaluate the impact of crack as the magnitude of SIF determines the propagation of crack. The objective is to investigate the SIF for crack emanating from one rivet hole and approaching another using isplacement Extrapolation Method (DEM) in F.E.M that would aid in the determination of the critical nature of such cracks.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Numerical modeling of the welding defect influence on fatigue life of the wel...inventy
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
APPLICATION OF COMPUTER FOR ANALYZING WORLD CO2 EMISSIONIJCSEA Journal
Global climate change due to CO2 emissions is an issue of international concern that primarily attributed
to fossil fuels. In this study, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for analyzing world CO2 emission based on the
global energy consumption. Linear and non-linear forms of equations were developed to forecast CO2
emission using Genetic Algorithm (GA) based on the global oil, natural gas, coal, and primary energy
consumption figures. The related data between 1980 and 2010 were used, partly for installing the models
(finding candidates of best weighting factors for each model (1980-2003)) and partly for testing the models
(2004–2010). Global CO2 emission is forecasted up to year 2030.
Measuring Plastic Properties from Sharp Nanoindentation: A Finite-Element Stu...CrimsonPublishersRDMS
Measuring Plastic Properties from Sharp Nanoindentation: A Finite-Element Study on the Uniqueness of Inverse Solutions by Fabian Pöhl* in Crimson Publishers: Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals
Size effect of plain concrete beams–an experimental studyeSAT Journals
Abstract
The paper analyses the size dependency of the fracture energy (GF) and the effective length of fracture process zone (Cf) of concrete
determined as per the Bazant’s Size effect method and RILEM Work-of-fracture methods. The fracture parameters (GF,Cf) are
determined by measuring the maximum loads of geometrically similar notched plain concrete (M25) specimens of different sizes in a
size ratio of 1:5 with different pre-cast notch depths (a/d=0.15, 0.30 and 0.45) under three point bending through load-deflection
curves. In each notch depth ratio, 15 beams are cast and tested with 03 similar specimens in each size of the beams. Total beams
tested are 45.The variation of both the fracture energy and the effective length of fracture process zone as a function of the specimen
size and notch depth is determined using Bazant’s Size effect method and RILEM Work-of-fracture method. Fracture energy and
Fracture process zone length determined by Size effect method are found to be decreasing with the increasing notch depth ratios.
Fracture energy calculated using Work-of-fracture method is increasing with the increase in size of specimen and decreasing with the
increasing notch depth ratios.
Performance of Soft Soil Stabilized by Fly Ash with Natural Fiber Reinforceme...AM Publications
The use of clay as a landfill cover system is a choice of alternative materials that are widely used in almost all the existing landfill system in Indonesia and in the world. In addition to the relatively low cost of procurement is also available in almost all regions in Indonesia. However, alternative reliable overburden landfills has not been much discussed and researched. The purpose of this study is to design an ideal final cover layer landfill technically and mechanically. The results showed that the addition of fly ash and palm oil fiber (POF) between 10% of fly ash and 0.5% of POF can enhance the mechanical value of soils. the compressive strength of soils increase from 39.4 kPa to 89.0 kPa or rose by 129%, decreasing the value of soil hydraulic conductivity is to be 1,2x10-7 from the initial value of 1,17x10-6 or decreased by 850.4%, increase in soil friction angle of 8.55° to 24 °, and lowering the soil liquid limit of 33.48% to 24.5%, decreasing of swelling potential of 8 % to only 1.5% at the end of the wetting cycle, reduce the cracking intensity factor (CIF) from 1.96% to zero cracks. Mechanical behavior is heavily influenced by the nature of fly ash which has of a small water absorption and change the water in the soil for the pozzolanic reaction and produce calcium hydrate silica (CSH), in which the reaction is to form granules (binder) in the soil so that the soil becomes dense and hard, while palm oil fiber have cellulose and lignin as dominant compounds that tend to have high water absorption but serves to strengthen the fiber tensile force between the fibers and the soils surface due to adhesion forces so that the soil is not easily collapse and reduce the potential shrinkages and cracking of the soils.
Study of Silica Fume Blended Concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment an...ijtsrd
The prime objective of this study is to design, analyze and optimize the silica fume blended concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment and to explore the practicability of Statistical mixture experiment in mix design of concrete containing the several components. The traditional mix design methods have drawbacks. Traditional method of mix design of concrete fails in designing the complex concrete mixture containing the cementitious materials, pozzolanic materials and several admixtures. Traditional methods are based on trial and error method in which effect of only one component can be determined. Trial and error does not provide the whole picture of concrete mixture. In this study, the statistical mixture design method is employed to analyze the effects of silica fume on 28 days compressive strength of concrete and to design and optimize the silica fume blended concrete. The components of concrete mixture are Cement, silica fume, water and aggregate. Total of 15 runs or design points are generated which are combinations of proportions and laboratory experiment is carried out on these design points and 28 days compressive strength is measured. Mathematical relationship is established between 28 days compressive strength and proportions of components using least square technique and then mathematical model is studied to analyze the effects of silica fume in concrete. Pankaj Kumar | M. C Paliwal ""Study of Silica Fume Blended Concrete using Statistical Mixture Experiment and Optimizing of Compressive Strength of Cement Concrete"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25178.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/25178/study-of-silica-fume-blended-concrete-using-statistical-mixture-experiment-and-optimizing-of-compressive-strength-of-cement-concrete/pankaj-kumar
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Improving the Efficiency of Ratio Estimators by Calibration WeightingsPremier Publishers
It is observed that the performances of most improved ratio estimators depend on some optimality conditions that need to be satisfied to guarantee better estimator. This paper develops a new approach to ratio estimation that produces a more efficient class of ratio estimators that do not depend on any optimality conditions for optimum performance using calibration weightings. The relative performances of the proposed calibration ratio estimators are compared with a corresponding global [Generalized Regression (GREG)] estimator. Results of analysis showed that the proposed calibration ratio estimators are substantially superior to the traditional GREG-estimator with relatively small bias, mean square error, average length of confidence interval and coverage probability. In general, the proposed calibration ratio estimators are more efficient than all existing estimators considered in the study.
A Displacement-Potential Scheme to Stress Analysis of a Cracked Stiffened Pan...inventionjournals
This paper deals with an efficient analytical scheme for the analysis of stress and displacement fields of boundary-value problemsof plane elasticity with mixed boundary conditions and material discontinuity. More specifically, the mechanical behavior of a stiffened panel with an edge crack is analyzed under the influence of axial loading, using a new analytical scheme. Earlier mathematical models of elasticity were very deficient in handling the practical stress problems of solid mechanics. Analytical methods of solution have not gained that much popularity in the field of stress analysis, mainly because of the inability of dealing with mixed boundary conditions, irregular boundary shapes, and material discontinuity
Coupled Euler Lagrangian Approach Using Abaqus /Explicit in the Bird Strike A...SIMULIA
Bird impact damage in complex aircraft structure has been investigated using explicit transient dynamic analysis by Abaqus/Explicit in order to fully employ its large library of elements, material models and the ability of implementing user defined materials. The numerical procedure has been applied on the very detailed large airplane secondary structure consisting of sandwich, composite and metallic structural items that have been modeled with 3D, shell and continuum shell elements, coupled with appropriate kinematic constraints. Bird has been modeled using Coupled Euler Lagrangian approach, in order to avoid the numerical difficulties connected with the mesh. The impact has been applied in the area that is the most probably subjected to the impact damage during the exploitation. The application point and velocity vector have been varied and the comparisons between total, kinetic, internal and damage energies have been performed. Various failure modes, such as CFRP face layer rupture, failure of composite matrix, damage initiation / evolution in the Nomex core and elastoplastic failure of a metallic structure have been investigated. Besides, general contact has been applied as to efficiently capture the contact between impactor and structure, as well as large deformations of the different structural components. Visualization of failure modes has been performed and damaged area compared to the available references. Compared to the classic Lagrangian modeling of the bird, the analysis has proven to be more stable, and the results, such as and damage areas, physically more realistic.
An Experimental Study of Low Velocity Impact (Lvi) On Fibre Glass Reinforced ...theijes
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
“Comparison of Maximum Stress distribution of Long & Short Side Column due to...IJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
The purpose of this study is to design experiments to determine the impact of ship
aerodynamics in Indonesia using the Computational Fluid Dynamic method and
compare the impact of fuell consumption and load from experimental testing. Thus, it
can be known in detail about the voltage that occurs up to the final speed of the ship
during testing. In the preparation of this research the first step is to model the end of
the ship using CAD software from the original model used in experimental testing. The
next thing is to determine the value of the mechanical properties of the material and
then put it in the CAE software. In CAE software, it is also determined about the
boundary conditions of the material and then determines the speed. The next thing to
do is the process of meshing the plate and ammunition and after the meshing process
is proceeded to the running process. In contrast to experimental testing where there
are various obstacles, the data produced by testing the Computational Fluid Dynamic
method and experimental testing can sometimes be different. This is because in the
testing process using Computational Fluid Dynamic, conditions are always in optimal
conditions.
Model Development for Estimation of Failure Loads: A Case Study of Composite ...ijsrd.com
This paper deals with the study of failure loads of glass vinylester composite plates with a circular hole subjected to a traction force by a rigid pin. These are investigated for two variables, the ratio of distance from the free edge of the plate (E) to the diameter of the hole (D) and the ratio of width of the plate (W) to the diameter of the hole (D). The work consists of a numerical study of different specimens using finite element analysis package ANSYS. Also, a mathematical model has been developed to determine the failure loads of different geometry plates. The results obtained from the numerical study and the mathematical models are compared with experimental results from the existing literature and the correlations are observed for both. A comparison of the experimental results with the numerical model shows that the numerical model gives results with correlation co-efficient 0.96. A comparison of the experimental results with the mathematical model shows that the mathematical model gives results with correlation co-efficient 0.99. For estimation of the failure loads within the range of E/D and W/D considered for the study, the mathematical model developed, i.e., Full Cubic Model proves to be more efficient with the observed values of correlation co-efficient, Root Mean Square Error and Maximum Absolute Error.
Design and analysis of Stress on Thick Walled Cylinder with and with out HolesIJERA Editor
The conventional elastic analysis of thick walled cylinders to final radial & hoop stresses is applicable for the internal pressures up to yield strength of material. The stress is directly proportional to strain up to yield point Beyond elastic point, particularly in thick walled cylinders. The operating pressures are reduced or the material properties are strengthened. There is no such existing theory for the stress distributions around radial holes under impact of varying internal pressure. Present work puts thrust on this area and relation between pressure and stress distribution is plotted graphically based on observations. Here focus is on pure mechanical analysis & hence thermal, effects are not considered. The thick walled cylinders with a radial cross-hole ANSYS Macro program employed to evaluate the fatigue life of vessel. Stresses that remain in material even after removing applied loads are known as residual stresses. These stresses occur only when material begins to yield plastically. Residual stresses can be present in any mechanical structure because of many causes. Residual stresses may be due to the technological process used to make the component. Manufacturing processes lead to plastic deformation. Elasto plastic analysis with bilinear kinematic hardening material is performed to know the effect of hole sizes. It is observed that there are several factors which influence stress intensity factors. The Finite element analysis is conducted using commercial solvers ANSYS & CATIA. Theoretical formulae based results are obtained from MATLAB programs. The results are presented in form of graphs and tables.
In this paper we have analyzed the stress distribution over a rectangular specimen
with hybrid composite material at its central hole. Using Vacuum bag technique the
material has been fabricated and it consists of carbon and glass fiber with epoxy. The
cross ply lamina arrangement with alternate carbon and glass has increased the
strength of the structure. This is because carbon properties are high compared to
glass. The cutouts made in typical aircraft and automobile components reduce the
weight and bulking load carrying capacity of the aircraft according to the weight
reduction law. Three specimens were used to carry out experimental investigations as
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Bird-Strike Modeling Based on the Lagrangian Formulation Using LSDYNA
1. 20132011 American Transactions on Engineering & Applied Sciences.
American Transactions on Engineering & Applied Sciences.
American Transactions on
Engineering & Applied Sciences
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BirdStrike Modeling Based on the Lagrangian
Formulation Using LSDYNA
Vijay K. Goyal
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, Carlos A. Huertas , Thomas J. Vasko
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, PR 00680, USA
Engineering Department, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050, USA
ARTICLEINFO
ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received December 23, 2012
Accepted February 20, 2013
Available online
March 01, 2013
In this first paper of a three-paper sequence, we developed a
standard work using the Lagrangian approach in LS-DYNA. The
results were compared against experimental results. First, a simple
one-dimensional beam centered impact problem was solved analytically
to validate the results produced by LS-DYNA. For this case, the results
were within 2.5% error when compared with the analytical solution.
Bird-strike events were divided into three separate problems: frontal
impact on rigid flat plate, 0 and 30 deg impact on deformable tapered
plate. The bird model was modeled as a cylindrical fluid. The peak
pressures and forces were compared to those results available in the
literature. The case for 0 deg tapered plate impact shows little bird-plate
interaction because the bird is sliced in two parts and the results were
within 10% difference from the test data available in the literature. The
developed Lagrangian approach is suitable for bird-strike events within
10% error.
Keywords:
Finite element;
Impact analysis;
Bird-strike;
Lagrangian
2013 Am. Trans. Eng. Appl. Sci.
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2. 1. Introduction
1.1 Motivation
We call collisions between a bird and aircraft “bird-strike events,” and they are quite common
and dangerous. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), wildlife strikes cost the
U.S. civil aviation industry over $300 million and more than 500,000 downtime hours each year
[1]. Also, people’s lives have been lost or being in risk due to aircraft malfunctions after
bird-strikes which make it imperative to design aircraft components capable of withstanding these
impacts.
To obtain certification from the FAA, an aircraft must be able to land after an impact with a
bird weighing 17.79 N (4 lb) at any point in the aircraft. For new jet engines designs, the FAA
certification requires tests for medium and large bird ingestion. For the medium or flocking bird
requirement, an engine must be capable of operating for five minutes with less than 25% thrust loss
after impacting several birds weighing 6.67 N (1.5 lb) or 11.12 N (2.5 lb). For the large bird
ingestion test, the engine must be able to ingest a bird weighing 26.69 N (6 lb) or 35.58 N (8 lb) and
achieve safe shutdown. These tests take hours of planning to execute and cost millions of dollars to
the jet engine manufacturing companies. Due to this, it is very important to be able to predict
damage caused by a bird-strike impact on new engine designs to save money and time.
In order to predict the damage of the components of a fan blade during a bird-strike event, we
created a standard work in LS-DYNA to model the blade and the bird. LS-DYNA allows us to
model these events for its explicit solver and its ability to analyze complex geometries, material
and load non-linearity, and study the interaction between the bird and the target. The Lagrangian
method is one of the methods is studied and will be the focus of this first paper.
1.2 Background on Impact Problems
The impact event is not a new topic and it has been studied by various authors. Parkes [2] was
the first to analyze the transversal impact of a mass against a cantilever beam. Stronge et al. [3]
also discuss the theory involving irreversible or plastic deformation of structural elements
composed of relatively thin ductile materials. The description of these deformations in a context of
impact damage was also discussed.
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3. The impact phenomenon was also analyzed theoretically by Goldsmith [4]. Goldsmith [4]
included the theory of colliding solids and also analyzed a transverse impact of a mass on a beam
assuming a equivalent system in which the beam is modeled by a massless spring. Goldsimth [4]
used energy method and the Lagrangian equations of motion to obtain a relation between the static
and dynamic deflections of the beam. A more complex impact problem is that involving a soft
body impact against a rigid plate. Cassenti [5] developed the governing equations for this kind of
impact. Cassenti [5] related the conservation equations with the constitutive equation of the
impacting material to obtain analytically the Hugoniot pressure or the pressure generated in the
beginning of the impact.
A bird-strike can be considered as a soft body impact problem. The characterization of birds
impacting a rigid plate was studied by Barber et al. [6]. Barber et al. [6] found that peak pressures
were generated in the impact of the bird against a rigid circular plate. This peak pressures were
independent of the bird size and proportional to the square of the impact velocity. Four steps
concerning the impact pressures were found: initial shock (Hugonniot Pressure), impact shock
decay, a steady state phase and the final decay of the pressure. This pressure plots were used as a
reference to compare the obtained pressures in the LS-DYNA simulation of the bird-strike event.
Bird-strike events have been studied using Lagrangian method in different finite element
codes. Neiring [7] used a Lagrange model of the bird as the basis. His work shows different
methods of computer simulation for the bird-strike event but states that an improvement is
necessary due to large distortions experienced by the bird in the Lagrange model.
Barber et al. [6] found that bird impacts in rigid targets generated peak pressures independent
of bird size and proportional to the square of the impact velocity, resulting in a fluid-like response.
Barber et al. presented the time-dependent pressure plots for the impact of birds against a rigid
cylindrical wall. This work was taken as reference to create simulations similar to those presented
by Barber et al. [6]. The work performed by Moffat et al. [8] was used to reproduce models of
impact of birds on tapered plates. Moffat et al. [8] worked in the use of an ALE description of
bird-strike event to predict the impact pressures and damage in the target plate. This work used
* Corresponding author (V. Goyal), Tel.: 1-787-832-4040 Ext. 2111; E-mail:
2013. American Transactions on Engineering & Applied Sciences.
vijay.goyal@upr.edu.
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ISSN 2229-1652 eISSN 2229-1660
Online Available at
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4. the MSC/DYTRAN code for the simulations instead of LS-DYNA which is the code used in this
project. The article presents some previous work involving rigid plate impacts from Barber et al.
[6] and a flexible tapered plate impacts from Bertke et al. [9]. These two kinds of impacts were
reproduced in the work by Moffat et al. [8] using the finite element description in MSC/DYTRAN.
The geometrical model that was used for the bird was a cylinder with spherical ends with an overall
length of 15.24 cm and a diameter of 7.62 cm. The bird density is 950 kg/m3. Moffat et al. [8]
found that the pressures were insensitive to the strength of the bird and a yield stress of 3.45 MPa
was taken for the rigid plate impact analysis. For the viscosity it was necessary to take higher
◦
values for impacts at 25 . The article shows plots of the shock pressures for different velocities and
for different bird sizes. For the tapered plate impact simulation a 7.62 × 22.86 cm plate was used.
◦
The plate was tapered by 4 and the edge thickness was 0.051 cm which blended to 0.160 cm for the
majority of the plate. The work did not specify the kind of element that was used for the tapered
plate. For the LS-DYNA simulation performed in this research the tapered plate will be simulated
using shell elements.
In this work, we attempt to create a standard work based on the Lagrangian formulation by
identifying the most important influencing parameters in the bird-strike simulation and validate the
simulation with the existing test data. One of the advantages of the Lagrangian model is that the
numerical mesh moves and distorts with the physical material, allowing accurate and efficient
tracking of material interfaces and the incorporation of complex material models.
2. Impact Analysis
The bird-strike events are considered as soft body impact in structural analysis because the
yield point of the bird is far smaller when compared with that of the target. Thus, the bird at the
impact can be considered as a fluid material. The soft body impact results in damage over a larger
area if compared with ballistic impacts. Now, to better understand, bird-strike events let us first
understand the impact problem and then apply it to the bird-strike event being studied in this work.
2.1 A Continuum Approach
Three major equations are solved by LS-DYNA to obtain the velocity, density, and pressure of
the fluid for a specific position and time. These equations are conservation of mass, conservation of
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5. momentum, and constitutive relationship of the material and are essential to solve the soft body
impact problem. The most important information in an impact analysis is the pressure generated by
the body on the target. Thus, we proceed to explain the basic equations used to find the pressure
generated at the beginning of the impact as developed in Cassenti [5].
Let us begin with the general form of the conservation of momentum, which can be stated as
follows:
where σ is the stress tensor, b the body force vector per unit mass, ρ the density, and V the velocity
vector. For the impact problem, no body forces are considered: thus, b = 0. Further, it is
assumed that for equilibrium the normal compressive stress acting in the contact interface balance
the normal pressure exerted for the body over the target within the contact area. Also, it is assumed
that the shear stresses are neglected. Thus, the conservation of momentum becomes
(1)
where P is a diagonal matrix containing only normal pressure components. The second equation
used in the analysis is the conservation of mass and it is written as per unit volume as follows:
(2)
Equations (1) and (2) consist of four independent equations involving seven unknowns. The
unknowns are three components of the pressure, three velocities, and the density. A third equation
which will relate the pressure and density is the constitutive relationship. This reduces the seven
unknowns to five and the system of equations can be solved. For this work different materials are
used to model the impact analysis. We can express constitutive relation in its general form as
follows:
(3)
2.2 Lagrangian Approach
The various formulations existent for the finite element analysis differ in the reference
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6. coordinates used to describe the motion and the governing equations. The Lagrangian method
uses material coordinates (also known as Lagrangian coordinates) as the reference; these
coordinates are generally denoted as X. The nodes of the Lagrangian mesh are associated to
particles in the material under examination; therefore, each node of the mesh follows an individual
particle in motion, this can be observed in Figure 1. This formulation is used mostly to describe
solid materials. The imposition of boundary conditions is simplified since the boundary nodes remain on the material boundary. Another advantage of the Lagrangian method is the ability to
easily track history dependant materials. The main disadvantage of the Lagrangian method is the
possibility of inaccurate results and the need of remeshing due to mesh deformations. Since in this
method the material moves with the mesh, if the material suffers large deformations as observed in
Figure 2, the mesh will also suffer equal deformation and this could leads to inaccurate results.
Figure 1: Description of motion formulation.
Figure 2: Lagrangian mesh.
The Lagrangian method uses material coordinates (also known as Lagrangian coordinates) as
the reference. The major advantage of the Lagrangian formulation is that the imposition of
boundary conditions is simplified since the boundary nodes are always coincident with the material
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7. boundary. Each individual node of the mesh follows the associated material particle during
motion.
This allows easy tracking of free surfaces, interfaces between materials and
history-dependant relations. The major disadvantage of this method is that large deformations of
the material lead to large distortions and possible entanglement of the mesh. Since in the
Lagrangian formulation the material moves with the mesh, if the material suffers large deformations, the mesh will also suffer equal deformation and this leads to inaccurate results. These
mesh deformations cause inaccuracy in the simulation results.
To correct this problem,
re-meshing must be performed which requires extra time.
2.3 Material Models
Two types of materials were used for the bird model: material null and the elastic fluid. The
material null considers a fluid material composed of 90% of water and 10% of air. This material
allows consider equation of state without computing deviatoric stresses. The equation of state
used with this material was the equation of state tabulated. This equation of state defines the
pressure P as follows
For the type of impact problems studied in this work, temperature does not play a big role. In
this context, the term
vanishes and thus the equation of state reduces to
The volumetric strain
is given by the natural logarithm of the relative volume. The second
type of material is the elastic fluid material. This material is an isotropic elastic material. The bulk
modulus, K, is defined as a function of the young modulus and the Poisson’s ratio as follows
The constitutive relationship used here is based on the final Hugoniot pressures and is
expressed as follows
where
is the pressure rate and
the deviatoric strain rate. In contrast with the material null the
elastic fluid material considers the computation of the deviatoric stresses which are the stresses that
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8. will cause deformation to the element.
Figure 3: Beam impact problem.
3. Beam Centered Impact Problem
Before studying bird-strike events, we proceeded to solve a beam centered impact problem
(Goyal and Huertas, [10]). The problem consisted in taking a simply supported beam of length, L,
of 100 mm over which a rigid object of mass, mA, of 2.233 × 10−3 kg impacts at a constant initial
velocity of, (vA)1, 100 m/s. The beam has a solid squared cross section of length 4 mm, modulus of
elasticity, EB, of 205 GPa, and a density, ρB, of 3.925 kg/m3. Figure 3 shows a schematic of the
problem. The goal of this problem is to obtain the pressure maximum peak pressure exerted at the
moment of impact. The problem is solve analytically and then compared to the corresponding
outputs from LS-DYNA for the Lagrange method.
3.1 Analytical Solution
Since the impact occurs at only one point, the problem can be solved by concentrating all the
mass of the beam at the point of impact, i.e., at the center of the beam. Thus this will simplify the
problem to a problem of central impact between two masses, as shown in Figure 4.
The theorem of impulse and momentum may be divided into two parts, as shown in Figure 5.
The first stage is the impact between the two masses with its respective initial velocities. At this
stage an impact force occurs in the beam that is exactly the same as that generated by the beam
against the projectile. The second stage is when both masses stick together with a common
velocity, experiencing a perfectly plastic impact. In other words the coefficient of restitution for
this problem is zero. Thus the final velocity is calculated as follows:
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9. (4)
Figure 4: Beam impact problem simplification.
Figure 5: Visualization of the theorem of impulse and momentum.
Now, as a consequence of concentrating all the mass at the center of the beam, the model is
similar to that of a one degree of freedom damped vibrating system with a force f(t). Since the
impact time is infinitesimal, the function f(t) can be assumed as a impulsive time-average constant
force Fave acting during the time of the impact and it is found as follows
(5)
where ∆ is the time it takes to complete the impact. Equation (5) has two unknowns: the average
force and the impact time. The impact time is taken to match the impact time given by LS-DYNA,
and thus perform a fair comparison. Once the impact time in known, the force is obtained straight
forward using Equation (5).
3.2 Lagrange Simulation
Now we solve the problem using the Lagrangian description in LS-DYNA. Figure 6 shows
the Lagrangian simulation and Figure 7 shows the plot for the impact force. The measured impact
time was ∆
8.08 µs. Only the initial impact pulse was considered for effects of comparison
because we are trying to compare a simple model discarding the possibility that the Lagrange
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10. simulation produced a not completely plastic impact. Substituting values in Equation 5, the
analytical impact force is 27.65 kN and the pressure 1.106 GPa. In impact problems, we are
mostly interested in the highest impact force. Thus, there is 2.4% difference when comparing the
peak force with the Lagrangian simulation to the analytical solution.
Figure 6: Lagrange simulation of transversal beam impact.
Figure 7: Impact force for the Lagrangian simulation.
4. BirdStrike Impact Problem
The beam centered impact problem was based on rigid body impact in which the analytical
load computation is relatively easily taking. The results obtained from this example provided us
confidence in the methods being used and thus we proceeded to analyze the bird-strike impact
problem. The bird-strike impact problem is a soft body impact which is different from the rigid
body impact. It is a soft body impact problem because the bird is deformable and is composed of
fluid and air, and the yield stress is far smaller when compared to that of the target.
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11. Figure 8: Damage caused by bird-strikes.
Figure 9: Graphical representation of Pressure Time oscillograph for shot 4992-B [7].
Although the characterization for soft body impact is a complex problem, researchers have
studied this problem using test data. Barber et al. [6] performed an experimental characterization
of bird-strike events. A bird-strike event may occur in different parts of an aircraft; however, the
scope of this work is to study bird-strike against fan-blades. Figure 8 shows the damage caused by
bird impact on the turbine fan blades. This only shows us that this problem is crucial and that by
predicting the impact pressure will help us design better fan blades. Furthermore, a fan blade is
composed of both flat and tapered sections. Thus, we focus our attention on analyzing bird-strikes
against flat and tapered plate using the Lagrange formulation in LS-DYNA. We use the work by
Barber et al. [6] as a mean of comparison. The results within 10% would be acceptable since the
actual testing model is not available.
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12. 4.1 Preprocessing
4.1.1 BirdModel
How to model a bird is quite challenging and a model that best meets the testing bird properties
must be used. The model considered in this work is that of a cylinder, as suggested by Bowman
and Frank [11]. It has been shown that this model of bird produce close results to real birds. In
addition, the bird model is assumed isotropic, symmetric and homogeneous. An approximate
aspect ratio (L/D) of 2.03 was used for our bird model. The dimensions vary depending on the
mass of the bird, and are selected from the test data by Barber et al. [6]. The material properties of
the bird were similar to a gelatin material with 90% water and 10% air mixture. It is important to
highlight that the mass of the testing birds plays an important role in the computer simulation
because the pressure distribution greatly depends on the density of the impacting object. Table 1
summarizes the main properties used for modeling the bird.
Table 1: Properties for the model of bird.
4.1.2 Rigid Flat Plate Target
In this research we use a rigid flat plate target and a deformable tapered plate target. The
purpose of using a rigid flat plate target is to compare the simulations with the experimental data
obtained from Barber et al. [6]. Barber et al. [6] used a rigid flat plate for their experiments which
can be modeled as a circular rigid plate with dimensions of 1 mm thickness and 15.25cm of
diameter. The material of the target disk was 4340 steel, with a yield strength of 1035 MPa,
Rockwell surface hardness of C45, modulus of elasticity modulus of 205 GPa, and a Poisson’s ratio
of 0.29. These properties of the material will be used in LS-DYNA to model the flat rigid plate.
4.1.3 Deformable Tapered Plate Target
The deformable tapered plate target properties were taken from the work by Moffat et al. [8], who
simulated the impacting bird (as a sphere) on a tapered plate using MSC/DYTRAN software. The
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13. properties for the tapered plate are given in.
Table 2: Tapered plate properties (fixed at the two shortest sides).
4.1.4 Test Data for BirdStrike Event
Barber et al. [6] simulated the bird-strike event as a solid cylinder with dimensions that vary
depending on the mass of the bird. The birds used in the tests weigh about 100 grams and are fired
at velocities ranging from 60 to 350 m/s. To achieve a better simulation of the bird-strike event
the densities of the computer simulated bird must be calculated based on the masses of the tests and
the recommended bird cylinder-like computer model. The target disk must be modeled as a
circular rigid plate. The material for the target disk was steel 4340 and Rockwell surface hardness
of C45.
In this research, we compared the tendencies on the pressure-load curves of the computer
simulations with experimental data, and determined velocities and densities based on the mass and
velocity quantities of the test data. To have a fair comparison of the results obtained by the
bird-strike simulation using LS-DYNA and the Barber et al. [6] research it is necessary to
reproduce as accurate as possible the results displayed from the pressure transducers recording the
impact event. Because of not having the digital experimental data of the test results to be reproduced, the graphs presented on Barber’s report are imported into MatLab to obtain approximate
readings, which are later compared with those obtained by LS-DYNA.
The pressure plots shown in Figure 9 depict the data by Barber et al. [6] in which the loads
generated in the impact are characterized. This is done in an effort to study the loading caused by
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14. this kind of impact in a real aircraft. All the LS-DYNA simulations performed in this research are
observed and compared with the test data. It is important to identify the stages in the loading
which are observed by Barber et al. [6]. The pressure measured in the test data shows about three
different stages as seen in Figure 9. The first and most important is the peak pressure generated at
the beginning of the impact. This pressure applied to the plate will tell us the magnitude of the
average maximum load that the target material has to resist. A secondary stage of the pressure that
the bird exerts over the plate is a steady state phase which occurs for a short period of time, on the
order of 150 to 400 µs. In this stage there are some high frequency variations of the pressure
which influence on the target will depend on the geometric characteristic of the same. A final stage
of the recorded pressure time plot is the fall of the pressure to a null value. For the purposes of this
research, velocities and densities were determined based on the mass and velocity quantities of the
test data.
The computer simulations are based on the data given by the Barber et al. [6] research and the
bird model used. The purpose of these simulations is to compare results obtained by using the
Lagrangian method with the experimental results. LSDYNA data output parameters such as
*DATABASE RCFORC were used to obtain the impact force diagrams.
Figure 10: Lagrangian bird deformation and force plot when using *MAT NULL.
We used a uniform cylindrical representation for the Lagrangian bird model because it
attempts to represent the artificial bird used in a real bird-strike test with those performed by
Bowman and Frank [11]. It is further assumed that this bird model is isotropic, symmetric and
homogeneous. Solid elements were used for the construction of the Lagrangian bird model. The
elements used for the target are of shell type with constant thickness of 1 mm (0.0393 in). All the
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15. nodes of the shell target were constrained in translation and rotation trying to represent the rigid
plated used by Barber et al. [6]. A constraint in displacement and rotation in all directions was
applied to all the nodes in the shell target and to the thickness of the shell element using the
*BOUNDARY SPC card.
Figure 11: Deformation of the bird model for the Lagrangian simulation using the FORMING
NODES TO SURFACE contact.
4.2 Frontal BirdStrike Event in Rigid Plates
4.2.1 Using *MAT NULL
First we studied the different types of contacts, starting with the *CONTACT ERODING
NODES TO SURFACE and the material type null. This contact type is a one-way contact which
allows for compression loads to be transferred between the slave nodes to the master surface and it
is recommended when the surface orientation is known throughout the analysis. The erosion
contact type allows the removal of the elements due to failure criteria to make the calculation more
stable. This contact type contains logic that allows the contact surface to be updated as the
external elements are deleted. The deformation for this simulation and the force plot generated by
LS-DYNA are shown in Figure 10. The maximum value of force obtained from the simulation was
0.114 MN (25628 lbf). Additionally, the pressure was calculated using an approximate area at the
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impact time, which is measured as 1300 mm . Thus the peak pressure obtained is 87.6 MPa,
which is 117% higher than the peak pressure found by Barber et al. [6]. When the values of the
relative volume in tension and compression were changed to 1.1 and 0.8 the resultant force
obtained was 0.523 MN. Therefore, this parameter is extremely sensitive for the Lagrange
simulation.
Now we consider the *CONTACT FORMING NODES TO SURFACE to define the contact
between the bird model and the target. The deformation was not as smooth as it was when using
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16. the *CONTACT ERODING NODES TO SURFACE. It can be seen in Figure 10 that at the final
deformation, a considerable amount of the bird model actually penetrates the target. The main
reason is that this contact type is suitable for metal stamping and not for rigid structures. The
maximum force value obtained for this simulation was 0.0404 MN. This value was 64.63% lower
than the maximum value obtained in the previous Lagrangian simulation. The fact that the
deformation shows errors and that the behavior of the force was very different when compared to
force plots of previous simulations leads to the conclusion that this simulation does not provide
accurate results.
Lastly, we change the contact type to *CONTACT NODES TO SURFACE. This is a
constraint based contact in which the forces are computed to keep the slave nodes in the master
surface. The deformation of this simulation presented instability error. This error was similar to
that observed in the simulation performed using *CONTACT FORMING NODES TO SURFACE,
as shown in Figure 11. The force plot from this simulation was 0.0404 MN, resulting in a
maximum force value same as in the previous simulation.
4.2.2 Using *MAT ELASTIC FLUID
For this simulation we changed the bird material from *MAT NULL to *MAT ELASTIC
FLUID. Since the results produced using *MAT NULL are not acceptable due to the large margins
of error, we decided to study to change the material model for the bird. The same three types of
contacts are studied for this material as well. First, *CONTACT ERODING NODE TO SURFACE
was used. A different outcome is expected because the equation of state for this material model is
different.
Figure 12: Lagrangian bird deformation and force plot when using *MAT ELASTIC FLUID.
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17. Figure 12 shows how the bird deforms after the impact and the force plot. The maximum
impact force obtained from this simulation was 0.0581 MN and it was obtained at 44.9 µs. Since
the pressure is needed in order to compare these results with the test data provided by Barber et al.
[6], we calculated the impact area by measuring the diameter of impact at the same time in which
the peak force occurred. This area was only an approximation to compute the maximum peak
pressure. It was calculated measuring the diameter of the impact area as shown in Figure 13. The
diameter was 41.18 mm therefore the approximated area was 1331.8 mm2. Thus the peak pressure
is 43.66 MPa, which is has 9.15% difference when compared to that obtained by Barber et al. [6].
Results for all other cases were not acceptable and thus *CONTACT ERODING NODES TO
SURFACE is the contact type recommended for bird-strike problems.
Figure 13: Diameter in the peak force impact time.
Table 3: Peak impact pressure comparison for various contact types and material models.
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18. 4.2.3 Comparison
The three Lagrangian simulations were performed varying contact cards and bird material
types. There is no difference between the results of the simulations using the *CONTACT
FORMING NODES TO SURFACE and *CONTACT NODES TO SURFACE cards. Simulations
with these contacts do not provide a smooth deformation of the bird because a significant amount
of the bird actually penetrates through the target causes errors in the force and thus pressure values.
Results are summarized in Table 3.
On the other hand, the Lagrangian simulation performed using the *CONTACT ERODING
NODES TO SURFACE contact card provided the best deformation and the force plots when using
*MAT ELASTIC FLUID. The peak pressure obtained using the eroding contact with MATERIAL
NULL was 117% when compared with the test data. When using *MAT ELASTIC FLUID the
approximate pressure was 9.15% higher to that value obtained by Barber et al. [6].
Figure 14: Comparison of the Lagrangian simulations for *MAT ELASTIC FLUID.
In addition, if we compare the force plots of the Lagrangian simulations using material elastic
fluid, as shown in Figure 14, we observe that the highest value corresponds to the eroding contact
type. The contact forming and nodes to surface have an error of 33.5% when compared with the
experimental value of 40 from Barber et al. [6]. Thus, for the Lagrangian model we recommend a
bird-model with material elastic fluid and an eroding node to surface contact type.
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19. 4.3 Impact for a Tapered Plate (Impact at 30 deg)
Now we explain the simulation of a cylindrical bird impacting a tapered plate along the
thinnest side. The deflection of the leading edge and the loads generated in the impact were
computed for LS-DYNA. The results are compared to those provided by Moffat et al. [8] by
modeling the bird as sphere. Here, however, our bird model is a cylindrical-type projectile. The
cylindrical form was chosen to be consistent to the worked performed here. In the Lagrangian
approach, the sphere model creates problems because of the node superimposition due to the mesh
type. These variations in density and overall solid dimensions of the bird should not produce huge
differences to the results obtained by Moffat et al. [8]. The cylinder dimensions and properties are
same as those used in the flat plate impact with the difference that the impact velocity is 477.4 m/s
(1067 mph).
Figure 15: Lagrangian bird impacting the tapered plate at 30°.
The boundary nodes of the plate corresponding to both sides were fixed with *SPC
BOUNDARY card. The tapered section of the plate was simulated by increasing the mesh and
assigning different parts with different *SECTION SHELL cards. The cards differ from each other
in the thickness of the elemental nodes. Five different parts were created for the tapered section of
the plate.
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20. Figure 16: Snapshots of the a bird impacting the tapered plate at 30°.
Moffat et al. [8] found that the maximum deflection in the leading edge was 1.05 in when a
bird impacts the simulated tapered plate at 30°. The impact angle of the bird was 30° and was
measured between the axis of the cylinder and the plane of the tapered plate as showed in Figure
15. Figure 16 shows the deformation of the tapered plate during the impact when the bird is
modeled using *MAT ELASTIC FLUID. As observed some elements are eliminated during
calculations due to negative volumetric strains failure. Figure 18 shows the top view of the tapered
plate leading edge deflection.
The maximum deflection was found to be 1.19 in as seen in Figure 18. This deflection was
measured using the tool of the LS-PREPOST to measure the change in coordinates using as point
of reference the position of the corner of the plate which is constrained in translation and rotation in
the x, y and z directions. Also, Figure 18 shows the resultant force in the contact interface and the
maximum value was 0.056 MN.
Figure 17: Top view of the deformed tapered plate leading edge after the impact and the resultant
force for the Lagrange simulation of the impact of a bird against a tapered plate with an angle of 30
degrees.
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21. Figure 18: Lagrangian bird impacting the tapered plate at 0°
Figure 19: Lagrangian bird impacting the tapered plate at 0°
Table 4: Maximum normal deflection for a bird impacting a tapered plate at 30°.
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22. Table 4 summarizes the results. The simulation using material elastic fluid and eroding node to
surface give acceptable results when comparing to the work done by Moffat. Only a 13.3% of error,
taking in consideration that the shape of the bird used in our case was different from that used by
Moffat. One reason why the better approximation is the Lagrange simulation using the material
elastic fluid could be because the material elastic fluid computes the stresses that cause the
deformation in the bird or the deviatoric stresses. Also, the material null does not take account for
this stresses the energy in the impact will be absorbed by the target resulting in a higher force
produced.
Figure 20: Snapshots of the a bird impacting the tapered plate at 0° when using *MAT NULL.
Figure 21: Snapshots and force history of a bird impacting the tapered plate at 0 when using
*MAT ELASTIC FLUID.
4.4 Impact for a Tapered Plate (Impact at 0 deg)
In this simulation the angle of impact is changed to 0°. The bird and plate properties were the
same as the used in the 30° impact. Figure 19 shows the geometrical model for this case. Once
again, results with *MAT NULL do not model the actual bird deformation as shown in Figure 20.
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23. During simulations, some elements of the bird were deleted which were produced due to failing in
the negative tensile or compressive volumetric strains.
As observed in Figure 21 the bird and target slightly interact and no deformation of the tapered
plate was obtained. This is expected since the bird impact occurs from the thinnest edge of the
tampered plate and the bird is basically sliced in two parts. This occurs as we change the material
type from *MAT NULL to *MAT ELASTIC FLUID.
The maximum force obtained was using materials null and elastic fluid was 0.0142 and
0.01411 MN, respectively. There is 0.637% difference for the force between the two material
models (material null and material elastic fluid). The material null which considers a fluid
material with 90% water and 10% air and the material elastic fluid which model an isotropic fluid
material can be used for 0° impact analysis to calculate the force. The reason is that the deviatoric
stresses are not computed. The similitude in the results for the 0° impact can be explained because
in the case in which the material elastic fluid is used there was very little deformation of the bird
and therefore there was no computation of the deviatoric stresses.
5. Concluding Remarks
The Lagrangian method used in LS-DYNA has shown to be robust for the one-dimensional
beam centered impact problem. The peak pressure from has an error smaller than 2.5% when
compared to the analytical results. Thus, the Lagrangian methods can be used to study soft-body
impact problems, such as bird-strike events.
For the frontal bird-strike impact against a flat rigid plate, one must use eroding type contact
and material elastic fluid. *MAT ELASTIC FLUID is a material specialized to model a fluid-like
behavior taking in consideration the deviatoric stresses which are not considered in the *MAT
NULL. The Lagrangian simulations show that the results are in within 10% when compared to the
experimental data.
For the 0 deg bird impact against a tapered plate, there was a small fluid-structure interaction
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24. because the bird is basically sliced in two parts. For the 30 deg bird impact against a tapered plate,
the Lagrangian produce a maximum normal deflection within 13.3% when compared to the
maximum normal deflection found by Moffat.
The main difference is error is due to the negative volume error, which occurs as a result of
mesh tangling do to its sensitivity to distortion, resulting in small time steps and sometimes loss of
accuracy.
6. Acknowledgments
This work was performed under the grant number 24108 from the United Technologies Co.,
Pratt & Whitney. The authors gratefully acknowledge the grant monitors for providing the
necessary computational resources and support for this work.
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Dr. V. Goyal is an associate professor committed to develop a strong sponsored research program for
aerospace, automotive, biomechanical and naval structures by advancing modern computational
methods and creating new ones, establishing state-of-the-art testing laboratories, and teaching
courses for undergraduate and graduate programs. Dr. Goyal, US citizen and fully bilingual in both
English and Spanish, has over 17 years of experience in advanced computational methods applied to
structures. He has over 15 technical publications with another three in the pipeline, author of two
books (Aircraft Structures for Engineers and Finite Element Analysis) and has been recipient of
several research grants from Lockheed Martin Co., ONR, and Pratt & Whitney.
C. Huertas completed his master’s degree at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 2006.
Currently, his is back to his home town in Peru working as an engineer.
Dr.Thomas J. Vasko, Assistant Professor, joined the Department of Engineering at Central
Connecticut State University in the fall 2008 semester after 31 years with United Technologies
Corporation (UTC), where he was a Pratt & Whitney Fellow in Computational Structural
Mechanics. While at UTC, Vasko held adjunct instructor faculty positions at the University of
Hartford and RPI Groton. He holds a Ph.D. in M.E. from the University of Connecticut, an M.S.M.E.
from RPI, and a B.S.M.E. from Lehigh University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in
Connecticut and he is on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers
Peer Review: This article has been internationally peer-reviewed and accepted for
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