New robust design guideline for Imperfection sensitive composite launcher Structures

Kurzfassung

Up to today there are no design guidelines which allow designing imperfection sensitive CFRP structures in an efficient way. The upcoming EU project DESICOS (New Robust DESIgn Guideline for Imperfection Sensitive COmposite Launcher Structures) contributes to this aim by a new design procedure exploiting the worst imperfection approach efficiently by implementation of the Single Perturbation Load Approach. Preliminary studies already demonstrated high potential. This paper deals with the objectives of the DESICOS project, describes the line of actions of the new approach, and specifies the theoretical and experimental work to be carried out in order to meet the objectives.