Citation

Espejel T, Fernandez J, Sharif Khodaei Z. Key Eng. Mater. 2017; 754: 181-184.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Trans Tech Publications)

DOI

10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.754.181

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Lighting strike is one of the critical threats to the safety of composite aircrafts during flight. This work reports on numerical simulation of lightning strike in composite structures. Different modelling techniques using the commercial software ABAQUS, together with damage models are studied to find the most appropriate one in comparison to experimental results. Once the numerical model is validated, the effect of insertion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and metallic mesh in the composite is investigated. It is concluded that inserting CNTs in the top layer of the composite can improve its lightning strike protection noticeably.

Language: en