Experimental Study on the Impact of Thermal Stress on Aircraft Structural Performance

The local heat source of a civil aircraft affects the temperature of the lower panel structure of the center wing. In this paper, a local heat source is arranged on the lower panel structure of the center wing. The strain of the center wing lower panel skin under different temperature gradients under local thermal loads and the corresponding temperature gradients around the heat source were investigated. The natural mesh model and the fine finite element model were used to analyze the thermal load of the center wing lower panel. The temperature on the node was applied according to the real temperature in the test, and the analysis results were compared with the test values. After comparative analysis, the strain value of the natural mesh model has a high degree of fit with the test value, and the analysis results of the natural mesh model can be used to analyze the thermal stress intensity of the center wing lower panel.