Design of Fire Safe Composite Structures

摘要

Summary and future Work: 1) Hybrid composites show promise as an effective system for both structural performance and thermal protection; 2) Fire testing at UD-CCM showed that CIRTM laminates retained significant strength and stiffness after prolonged exposure to 2000-degree F open flame; 3) Future work will involve development of a series of genetic algorithms to solve the problem of optimizing navy deck structures using a model based design approach rather than extensive testing; 4) The optimization scheme will also take into account any weighted design variables such as the necessity to include additional fire protection materials, radar absorption material and a minimum damage resistance level.