Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15145029
Keywords
shear-after-impact (ShAI); picture frame test; composite laminate; finite element analysis; two-step model
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52075326]
- Science Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments
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This study investigates the impact and ShAI properties of carbon fiber reinforced polymer matrix (CFRP) composite laminates using theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods. A method of determining specimen size is developed by comparing load values due to buckling and material failure. The experiments show that impact damage with a cut-off energy of 50 J results in a 26.8% reduction in residual strength.
Impact loading on carbon fiber reinforced polymer matrix (CFRP) composite laminates can result in a significant reduction in their residual properties, and the (ShAI) properties of the composite material are essential to obtain the material allowable values of the shear dominated composite structures. In order to obtain the ShAI properties of the composite material in pure shear stress at a coupon level, this study presents theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods and analysis work on the in-plane shear and ShAI properties of the composite laminates. Theoretically, a method of sizing the composite specimen loading in shear is developed through comparing the load values due to buckling and the material failure. Following this, both impact tests using the drop-weight method and ShAI tests using the picture frame test method are conducted, and the influences of the impact energies on the impact damage and the residual ShAI values are evaluated. Moreover, a progressive failure finite element model based on the Hashin's failure criterion and the cohesive zone model is developed, and a two-step dynamic analysis method is performed to simulate the failure process of the composite laminates under impact loading and ShAI loading. It is found that the impact damage with the cut-off energy, 50 J, causes a 26.8% reduction in the residual strength and the residual effective shear failure strain is about 0.0132. The primary reason of the shear failure is the propagation of both the matrix tensile failure and interlaminar delamination. It can be concluded that the proposed theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods are promising factors to study the ShAI properties of the composite materials.
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