Sarah Shoemaker1/17/2008

Internal Structures, CAD

Initial Fuselage Materials Research

Strength/Kg vs Cost

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Fuselage Initial Research• Strength/Cost

– Steel Alloys: $2595.89 MPa/$• Strength/Weight

– Steel Alloys: 0.758 MPa/kg

Future Work•Investigate more composite materials•Research Internal Structures

Materialdensity

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Youngs

modulus

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tensile strengt

h (MPa)

strength/weight

(Mpa/kg)

strength/cost

(Mpa/$) price/kg

Aluminum-lithium 2.53 80 550 0.55 - -

Al 2024 2.77 70 185 0.1850.0806100

22 $2.30

alloy steels 7.85 190 758 0.7582.5958904

11 $0.29

titanium 4.51 110 107 0.1070.0003858

22 $277.33

fibreglass (E-glass) 2.55 72 200 0.2 - -

Backup Slide

Backup Slide• References:

– “Key Properties”, E-Glass Fiber, January 2008, [http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=764], Accessed 1/15/2008

– “Ohio Department of Transportation Inter-Office Communication”, Steel Price Index, January 2, 2008, [http://www.dot.state.oh.us/construction/oca/Steel_Index_for_PN525.htm], Accessed 1/14/2008

– Fraser, David, Kleespies, Hank, Vasicek, Cliff, Spacecraft Structures

– “Titanium and Titanium Oxide”, US Geological Survey, January 2007, [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/titanium/tidiomcs07.pdf]