Carbon Fiber Composite Airplane Fuselage: Concept and Analysis

Abstract

The paper addresses one of the conceptsof carbon fiber fuselage for a big passenger airplane, “Lampassenkonzept” proposed by theInstitute of Structural Mechanics of the German Aerospace Center (DRL, Braunschweig)within the research program assigned by Airbus, Germany. The proposed concept alongwith the weight/cost reduction issues addresses the possibility of meeting the additional requirements to carbon fiber plastic fuselages of big airplanes of tomorrow. Thepaper contains the analysis and comparison ofabove concept with the aluminum variant of“standard body”, as well as the results of carbon fiber fuselage project in “Gondelkonzept”implemented by above Institute within thenational German HGF Project “Black Body”