Evaluation of impact assessment methodologies. Part II: Experimental validation

The present paper is the second part of an evaluation study of the impact simulation tools CODAC and IDAT. While in Part I the methodologies for stress analysis, failure detection, material degradation and time integration were presented and discussed, Part II focuses on the experimental validation of the applied methodologies. Therefore, computational results in terms of impact damage and residual compression strength are compared to the results of an impact test program with monolithic composite panels. The evaluation of the tools is based on the accuracy and efficiency of the impact and residual strength analyses.