Author(s)

Th. Kermanidis, G. Labeas, C. Apostolopoulos and Louis Michielseif

Abstract

Within the European research program 'Design for Crash Survivability', CRASURV [1], simulation of the crash behavior of aircraft subfloor components, like sine-wave beams and 'tensor skin' panels, is performed by Univ. Patras. These substructures, which are made of composite materials, were initially developed by NLR and originally suggested in [2] and [3], as energy absorbing elements in helicopter subfloor structures subjected to water impact The practical application of the 'tensor skin' concept was found in a sandwich corrugated panel configuration. In order to identify their ability to transfer impact loads and ab

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