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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2023
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Brian Patrick Justusson, Saint Peters, MO (US);
Joseph Daniel Schaefer, Richmond Heights, MO (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A method of analyzing a composite structure for damage tolerance. The method includes obtaining a structural configuration and determining at least one metric of interest for the structural configuration. A dent depth meta-model is developed based on the structural configuration, the at least one metric of interest, and information obtained from a machine learning algorithm. The at least one metric of interest provides a constraint for the dent depth meta-model and the machine learning algorithm is trained based on a historical physical test dataset of a plurality of composite components. The dent depth meta-model is utilized to estimate an impact energy to establish a threshold dent depth in the structural configuration. A computer-based simulation is performed with the structural configuration utilizing the impact energy from the dent depth meta-model. At least one design value is determined for the structural configuration based on output data generated from the computer-based simulation.