Artificial hail ice impact damage of laminated composite T-joint with stitching reinforcement

Hailstone impact has been one of the major concerns in the design and analysis of composite aerospace structures. Being key elements of such structures, T-joints with stitching reinforcement are investigated in this paper to understand its failure response in artificial hail ice impact loading conditions. Artificial hail ices are projected to the skin of composite T-joints at different energy levels with gas gun. High speed camera is used to...