Aircraft are increasingly being made of electrically resistive composites, rather than
conductive metals. Therefore, it is important to analyse the damage caused by a lightning …

Offshore structures and airframes are more likely to catch lightning. Carbon/glass Fibre
Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites are the top priority material for such structures, for …

This paper aims to develop a smart multiphysics approach for wind turbine design utilizing
Industry 5.0. A new blade profile is developed and optimized by non-dominated sorting …

Experimental work has shown that a component of lightning strike damage is caused by a
mechanical loading. As the profile of the pressure loading is unknown a number of authors …

High speed image analysis of experimental lightning strike testing on composite specimens
has demonstrated complex time-dependent arc attachment behaviour. To date simulation …

Highly complex phenomena such as lightning strikes require simulation methods capable of
capturing many different physics. However, completing this in one simulation is not always …

Lightning strike simulations have used decomposition models, derived from TGA
experiments, to model material behaviour at elevated heating rates and temperatures. Such …

In this work, three-dimensional (3D) finite element simulations were undertaken to study the
effects of lightning strikes on the microscale behaviour of continuous fibre-reinforced …

The damage depth of a material is a key parameter for industrial objects in consideration of
the lightning threat. The continuing current component in a multiple lightning sequence …

This paper proposes a progressive damage model incorporating strain and heating rate
effects for the prediction of composite specimen damage resulting from simulated lightning …