• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2002

The structural load analysis of 50m class airship was performed. The airship maneuver condition for analysis was defined. Aerodynamic, inertia and buoyance models were built. Control surface motion to make defined maneuver condition were calculated. Load factors, load, shear and bending moment envelops were developed for full airship and tailwing. Gondola design loads were developed.

• Composites Research
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.30-37
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• 2005

In this paper, geometrically non-linear finite element analyses were performed to study the mechanical behavior of the material system of the envelope of stratospheric airships. The microstructure of the load-bearing plain weave layer was identified and modeled. The Updated Lagrangian formulation was employed to consider the geometric non-linearity as well as the induced structural non-linearity for the fiber tows. The stress-strain behavior was predicted and the effective elastic modulus was calculated by numerical experiments. It was found the non-linear stress-strain curves were largely different from those by linear analysis. And non-linear elastic moduli were much higher than linear elastic moduli. The difference was more distinguishable when the tow waviness ratio was smaller.