Publication Date:
2013-08-29
Description:
This presentation afforded the opportunity to look back in the literature to discover scaling effects in nature that might be relevant to composites. Numerous examples were found in nature's approaches to wood, teeth, horns, leaves, eggs, feathers, etc. Nature transmits tensile forces rigidly with cohesive bonds, while dealing with compression forces usually through noncompressible hydraulics. The optimum design scaling approaches for aircraft were also reviewed for comparison with similitude laws. Finally, some historical evidence for the use of Weibull scaling in composites was reviewed.
Keywords:
STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Type:
NASA. Langley Research Center, Workshop on Scaling Effects in Composite Materials and Structures; p 101-118
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