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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 853-861Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2017.08.061
Keywords
Dielectric constant; Glass fibre; 3D woven composites; Simulation; Modelling
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- Dean's Doctoral Scholar Award, School of Materials, The University of Manchester
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This paper presents a novel methodology for predicting the dielectric constant of three-dimensional woven glass fibre-reinforced composites. A well-established approach of deriving the effective dielectric constant is the dielectric mixing formulae (rule of mixtures based), which either provide a single value or offer upper and lower bounds. For composites with three-dimensional fibre architecture, an accurate model considering the three-dimensional effect is needed. Here, the anisotropic effect is revealed using electromagnetic simulation to extract the effective dielectric constant of a model material with unidirectional fibres, which are aligned or orthogonal to the electric field. The rule of mixtures based formulae are evaluated. The most suitable formula selected for each case is then extended to a general case with arbitrary fibre orientation and is further used to characterise the capacitor element of an electromagnetic model for 3D woven composites. The proposed method is compared to measurements to demonstrate the improved accuracy. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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