Simulation of dynamic delamination and mode I energy dissipation

Delamination initiation and propagation of aeronautic composites is an active field of research. In this paper we present a methodology for critical energy release rate correlation of numerical simulation and experimental data. Experiments of mode I critical energy release rate were carried out at quasi static and pseudo dynamic loading rates. Cohesive finite elements are used to predict the propagation of delamination in a carbon fiber and epoxy resin composite material. A bilinear material model is implemented via user defined cohesive material subroutine in LS-DYNA. The influence of mode I energy release rate in mixed mode loading, due to a low velocity impact, is also investigate

Dynamic delamination of aeronautic structural composites by using cohesive finite elements

Cohesive finite elements are used to model impact induced delamination prediction of T800/21M unidirectional laminated composite. DCB, ELS and MMB tests are used to identify cohesive element parameters. Results from experiments and numerical prediction of impact induced delamination by commercially available code LS-DYNA are compared

Damage location method for thin composites structures - application to an aircraft door

Piezoelectric sensors are widely used for Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) technique due to their high-frequency capability. In particular, electromechanical impedance (EMI) techniques give simple and low cost solutions for detecting damage in composite structures. For example, damage indicators computed from EMI deviations between the pristine structure and the damaged structure can be compared to a threshold in order to point damage. When it is question of damage localization, the simple analysis of the electromechanical impedance fails to furnish enough information. We propose a method based both on EMI damage indicators and on the acoustic attenuation level to locate damage. One of the main advantages of our method, so called data driven method, is that only experimental data are used as inputs for our algorithms. It does not rely on any model

A search for energy deposition by neutrinos in matter

An exploratory search for an anomalous energy deposition by neutrinos in a germanium crystal was performed in the CERN high energy neutrino beam. No signal was found and a limit is set at a level of about 10^-12 of the normal dE/dx for a minimum ionizing particle.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures Paper accepted by Physics Letters B on March 4th, 199

On the distribution of the trace in the unitary symplectic group and the distribution of Frobenius

International audienceThe purpose of this article is to study the distribution of the trace on the unitary symplectic group. We recall its relevance to equidistribution results for the eigenvalues of the Frobenius in families of abelian varieties over finite fields, and to the limiting distribution of the number of points of curves. We give four expressions of the trace distribution if g = 2, in terms of special functions, and also an expression of the distribution of the trace in terms of elementary symmetric functions. In an appendix, we prove a formula for the trace of the exterior power of the identity representation

Favoriser l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes handicapés

A la suite du rapport sur la scolarisation des élèves handicapés remis par Yvan LACHAUD en octobre 2003 au ministre de l’Education nationale et à la secrétaire d’Etat chargée des personnes handicapées, la loi pour l’égalité des droits et des chances, la participation et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées a affirmé le droit pour tout élève handicapé de pouvoir bénéficier d’un parcours de prise en charge qui soit adapté à ses besoins. La suite logique de cet accès à la scolarité en milieu ordinaire est l’accès à un métier en milieu ordinaire. Tel a été le sujet sur lequel Mme Montchamp, secrétaire d’Etat aux personnes handicapées, a confié l’animation d’un groupe de travail, le 9 mars 2005. Cette mission a été confirmée par M. Bas, ministre délégué à la Sécurité sociale, aux personnes âgées, aux personnes handicapées et à la famille

Robust Geometry Estimation using the Generalized Voronoi Covariance Measure

The Voronoi Covariance Measure of a compact set K of R^d is a tensor-valued measure that encodes geometric information on K and which is known to be resilient to Hausdorff noise but sensitive to outliers. In this article, we generalize this notion to any distance-like function delta and define the delta-VCM. We show that the delta-VCM is resilient to Hausdorff noise and to outliers, thus providing a tool to estimate robustly normals from a point cloud approximation. We present experiments showing the robustness of our approach for normal and curvature estimation and sharp feature detection

Modelling aeronautical composite laminates behaviour under impact using a saturation damage and delamination continuous material model

We show that the behavior of T700/M21s and T800/M21s composite panels are affected by the influence of strain rates together with local shear and crush punch or global flexural strengths of the structure. A deterministic continuous composite material model has been developed as a LS-DYNA user defined material model for unidirectional composites on the basis of the Matzenmiller model widely used for woven composites. Initiation and evolution up to saturation and fracture are implemented for various and coupled damage mechanisms including delamination. Quasi-static and dynamic characterization tests laminates have been carried out on balanced angle ply [±θ] and used for calibration of numerical values. Impact induced damage from experiment's measures and numerical predictions are compared for T800/M21S aeronautical samples impacted at 15J