The Effects of Honeycomb Parameters on Transient Response of an Aircraft Sandwich Panel Structure

Abstract

In this paper, an experimental and numerical investigation were conducted to develop an understanding of the importance and role played by honeycomb design parameters in transient response of aircraft sandwich with honeycomb core under the transient load. Forced vibration under transient load test was implemented on sandwich panel with honeycomb core specimens. Vibration rig with specific equipment was manufactured. Finite element simulation for the sandwich panel with honeycomb core were developed and analyzed by Ansys software package. Modal analysis and transient response analysis have been carry out to obtain the numerical transient response. The obtained results show a good agreement between above approaches with conformity by 85% percentage. The core high, cell size and cell wall thickness were selected to explore the effect of honeycomb parameters on the transient response of sandwich structure. In order to obtain the optimum condition, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used. Results showed that minimum transient response were found at 20 mm core height, 25 mm size cell and 1.5 mm cell wall thickness. Where, the optimal value minimum transient response equal to 0.0019 mm.