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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 129, Issue -, Pages 60-69Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.03.034
Keywords
Composite materials; Residual stress; Three-dimensional thermo-viscoelasticity; Differential constitutive law; Autoclave curing
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11302168]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2014CFB140]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [143101001]
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A three-dimensional thermo-viscoelastic model to simulate the residual stress in composite laminates during curing was proposed using the differential constitutive law. Based on a generalized Maxwell model with n Maxwell elements, a three-dimensional differential thermo-viscoelastic constitutive law was developed and corresponding differential finite element codes were incorporated into commercial software ABAQUS with an UMAT subroutine. In the present thermo-viscoelastic model the changes in thermal expansion, chemical shrinkage and stress relaxation were taken into account. The differential thermo-viscoelastic model and its finite element analysis were numerically validated in comparison to those presented by White and Kim (1998). Furthermore, the influence of aluminum skins on residual stress development for autoclaved composite laminates was evaluated with the present differential thermo-viscoelastic model. The results indicate that the aluminum skins have negligible effects on the cure of composite laminates and significant effects on the residual stress development during curing. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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