Investigation of the effect of fuselage dents on compressive failure load

The main motivation for this thesis study is that significant workload for aging transport aircrafts is related to dent removal from fuselages. This thesis is a preliminary investigation of aircraft fuselage dents using the Finite Element Method (FEM) via FEA ABAQUS software. We investigated si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lang, Nann C.
Other Authors: Kwon, Young W.
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3532