CRED – Composite Repair Engineering Design
Young’s Modulus, Modulus of Elasticity, Hooke’s Law, and Poisson’s Ratio. All of these terms take on a different characteristic when applied to composite material structures.
Complimenting our “Beyond the SRM” training philosophy, the CRED course has been designed for degree-qualified Engineers in the Aerospace, Mechanical, or Material Sciences, or persons requiring training & experience in strength calculations for the design analysis and creation of substantiating data for repairs to secondary-load composite structures.
Description:
Delivered by classroom lectures, on composite materials, manufacturing processes, damage types-causes and with a focus on repair design techniques and repaired strength analysis. Hands-on workshop projects include the fabrication of composite test panels. Damaging the panels, performing repairs, and mechanically testing coupons from both the original and repaired panels to substantiate the repair design calculations.
This course is a required prerequisite for the CRED-Module #2 Advanced Repair Analysis and Substantiation for Aerospace Structures course. The CRED- Mod.#2 course (currently in development) provides for the repair analysis & techniques that apply to damaged primary load-bearing aircraft composite structures.
Keywords: repairs beyond specification; fatigue life; damage tolerance analysis
Topics covered in this 5-day course include:
- Examination of advanced composites as used in modern aerostructures.
- Causations of structural damage and assessment techniques
- Application of techniques for complex repairs for composite structures
- Creation of repair designs and substantiating data development
- Practical exercises in the repair of prefabricated composite panels
- Load testing of repaired panels to confirm the validity of calculated data