Design and Analysis of Aircraft Composite Window Frame

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This is the preliminary study to develop composite window frame of commercial aircraft using VaRTM process. For two candidate carbon fabric(triaxial fabric, sleeving braider dry carbon fiber), specimens were fabricated using VaRTM process ,and then the physical & mechanical tests were performed to gain material property according to ASTM. FEM analysis for each candidate carbon fabric were performed to find the minimum ply number and weight for composite window frame. In this study Tsai-Wu strength failure criteria was utilized to evaluate the safety of structure.