First Successful Simulation of On-Board Explosion Will Aid in Aircraft Hardening Studies

Autor: Victor L. Chen
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: SIMULATION. 68:107-110
ISSN: 1741-3133
0037-5497
DOI: 10.1177/003754979706800204
Popis: The world's first successful simulation of an explosion on board a commercial airliner is expected to provide a significant boost to understanding how to harden airliners against bombs. An explosion of this type occurs extremely quickly and its simulation requires simultaneous operation of both a fluid and a structural code. McDonnell-Douglas engineers overcame these problems by coupling two explicit finite element codes so that the results of each are communicated to the other. The validity of this approach is supported by adequate agreement with the available experimental evidence.
Databáze: OpenAIRE