{"id":153,"date":"2011-09-23T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/mobasher\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:43:53","slug":"structural-mechanics-of-jet-engine-containment-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/mobasher\/structural-mechanics-of-jet-engine-containment-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite Fabrics for Jet Engine Containment Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Project Sponsor: Federal Aviation Administration, AACE Grant for Centers of Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composite fiber fabric wraps are widely used in the containment systems of aircraft gas turbine engines.  Such systems are essential as they mitigate engine debris during a fan blade-out event which is defined as failure of a fan blade and release of the kinetic energy associated with its interaction with engine and fuselage components.  Woven dry fabrics are ideal containment systems as they have a high strength per unit weight. Moreover, it is inexpensive to manufacture such a containment system compared with the traditional metallic systems.  To properly utilize this advantage, it is necessary to have a robust finite element analysis modeling methodology for design tasks.  Modeling a multi-layer fabric composite for engine containment systems during a fan blade-out event has been a difficult task since the constitutive properties and the sequence of events during the impact need to be better defined and modeled.  This project has been addressing the components of experimental and theoretical modeling of these phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comparison between simulation and experimental deformation patterns for turbine blade containment system<\/p>\n\n\n\n