Deformation and progressive failure behavior of woven-fabric-reinforced glass/epoxy composite laminates under tensile loading at cryogenic temperatures

2005 ◽  
Vol 65 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1691-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomo Takeda ◽  
Satoru Takano ◽  
Yasuhide Shindo ◽  
Fumio Narita
Keyword(s):  
Composite Laminates ◽  
Epoxy Composite ◽  
Progressive Failure ◽  
Tensile Loading ◽  
Woven Fabric ◽  
Failure Behavior ◽  
Cryogenic Temperatures

Tensile Deformation and Progressive Failure Behavior of Woven-Fabric GFRP Laminates at Cryogenic Temperatures

Aerospace ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoru Takano ◽  
Tomo Takeda ◽  
Yasuhide Shindo ◽  
Fumio Narita
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Tensile Deformation ◽  
Progressive Failure ◽  
Woven Fabric ◽  
Failure Behavior ◽  
Cryogenic Temperatures ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Damage Development ◽  
Fabric Composite ◽  
Macro Scale

This paper focuses on understanding the deformation and progressive failure behavior of glass/epoxy plain weave fabric-reinforced laminates subjected to uniaxial tension load at cryogenic temperatures. Cryogenic tensile tests were conducted on the woven-fabric laminates, and the damage development during loading was characterized by AE (acoustic emission) measurements. A finite element methodology for progressive failure analysis of woven-fabric composite panels was also developed, and applied to simulate “knee” behavior in the stress-strain responses and damage behavior in the tensile test specimens. The effect of strain concentrations due to the fabric architecture on the failure strain of the material was considered by incorporating the SVF (strain variation factor) from meso-scale analysis of a woven-fabric composite unit into the macro-scale analysis of the specimens. A comparison was made between the finite element predictions and the experimental data, and the agreement is good.

scholarly journals Progressive Failure Analysis of Laminates with Embedded Wrinkle Defects Based on an Elastoplastic Damage Model

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2422
Author(s):  
Zhi Hua Ning ◽  
Guan Liang Huo ◽  
Ren Huai Liu ◽  
Wei Lin Wu ◽  
Jia Ming Xie
Keyword(s):  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Composite Laminates ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Progressive Failure ◽  
Golden Section ◽  
Damage Model ◽  
Failure Behavior ◽  
Progressive Failure Analysis ◽  
Out Of Plane ◽  
Elastoplastic Damage

Out-of-plane wrinkling has a significant influence on the mechanical performance of composite laminates. Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the progressive failure behavior of fiber-reinforced composite laminates with out-of-plane wrinkle defects subjected to axial compression. To describe the material degradation, a three-dimensional elastoplastic damage model with four damage modes (i.e., fiber tensile failure, matrix failure, fiber kinking/splitting, and delamination) was developed based on the LaRC05 criterion. To improve the computational efficiency in searching for the fracture angle in the matrix failure analysis, a high-efficiency and robust modified algorithm that combines the golden section search method with an inverse interpolation based on an existing study is proposed. The elastoplastic damage model was implemented in the finite-element code Abaqus using a user-defined material subroutine in Abaqus/Explicit. The model was applied to the progressive failure analysis of IM7/8552 composite laminates with out-of-plane wrinkles subjected to axial compressive loading. The numerical results showed that the compressive strength prediction obtained by the elastoplastic damage model is more accurate than that derived with an elastic damage model. The present model can describe the nonlinearity of the laminate during the damage evolution and determine the correct damage locations, which are in good agreement with experimental observations. Furthermore, it was discovered that the plasticity effects should not be neglected in laminates with low wrinkle levels.

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