Sobre metodologias de modelagem computacional de propagação de trincas por fadiga em fuselagens aeronáuticas. / On computacional modeling methodologies of fatigue crack propagation in aircraft fuselages.

AUTOR(ES)

Ivan José de Godoy Mazella

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

A methodology for modeling fatigue crack growth in pressurized, stiffened, thin shell structures is implemented within a software framework that consists of a fracture simulation code associated with a finite element analysis code. Crack trajetories are allowed to be arbitrary and are computed incrementally as a part of the simulation. Trajectories are represented in a localized model region that can be remeshed automatically at each crack increment using a quadrilateral element surface meshing algorithm. Two alternatives for meshing the near crack tip region are presented: by shell finite elements and by solid finite elements. The methodology assumes that the crack growth is caracterized by four stress intensity factors that model the membrane behavior using two-dimensional plane stress elasticity and the plate behavior using Kirchhoff plate theory. The structural response of the pressurized thin shell is computed by ADINA (Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis) code, using a geometrically non-linear shell fiinite element analysis procedure, formulated by Reissner-Mindlin theory. A study shows that for thin shells the Kirchhoff factors can be related to the Reissner-Mindlin factors by mean of semi-empirical expressions. Three-dimensional average stress intensity factors are defined and related to the factors of the two-dimensional elasticity and the Reissner-Mindlin theories. An application example is presented and the results of the three theories are compared. The metodology validation is discussed by mean of a fatigue crack growth simulation in a full-scale pressurized panel test of a Boeing 737.

ASSUNTO(S)

thin shells fratura das estruturas método dos elementos finitos cascas delgadas finite element method structural fatigue fracture of structures fuselagem fadiga em estruturas aircraft fuselage

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