Fatigue life prediction of aircraft gun cabin structure under impact

Abstract

The aircraft gun firing will cause serious impact on airframe structure. According to the gun firing principle, the muzzle blast wave is simulated by chemical explosion. ALE method is used to deal with the fluid-structure interaction between high-pressure flowing air and the surface of the cabin. Then the expression model of the impact load is established. The numerical calculation is completed to analyse the dynamic response of the cabin structure under the impact load. The parameters of load and cabin model are modified by using the experiment results. Comparing the calculated dynamic response with the experiment results, the error is within acceptable range. Multiaxial stress equivalence and rain-flow counting method are used to process the simulation impact response data to estimate the impact fatigue life. In conclusion, the paper provides a feasible method for analysing dynamic response and fatigue life of gun cabin structure.