Journal
EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 333-351Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11340-009-9234-9
Keywords
Composite reinforcements; Carbon fabrics; Bending behaviour; Experimental characterization
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- European project
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In composite reinforcement shaping, textile preform undergo biaxial tensile deformation, in plane shear deformation, transverse compaction and out-of-plane bending deformations. Bending deformations have been neglected in some simulation codes up to now, but taking into account them would give more accurate simulations of forming especially for stiff and thick textiles. Bending behaviour is specific because the reinforcements are structural parts and out of plane properties cannot be directly deduced from in-plane properties, like for continuous material. Because the standard tests are not adapted for stiff reinforcements with non linear behaviour a new flexometer using optical measurements has been developed to test such reinforcements. This new device enables to carry out a set of cantilever tests with different histories of load. A series of tests has been performed to validate the test method and to show the capacities of the new flexometer to identify non linear non elastic behaviour.
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