Micromechanical analysis of UD CFRP composite lamina under multiaxial loading with different loading paths

Chen, J. and Wan, L. and Ismail, Y. and Hou, P. and Ye, J. and Yang, D. (2021) Micromechanical analysis of UD CFRP composite lamina under multiaxial loading with different loading paths. Composite Structures, 269: 114024. ISSN 0263-8223

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Abstract

The influences of loading path on the failure of unidirectional (UD) carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite laminae IM7/8552 are studied. A 3D representative volume element (RVE) based micromechanical model is established using finite element method (FEM) to capture the coupled effects of fibres, matrix and fibre/matrix interface on the failure under different multiaxial loading conditions. An artificial neural network (ANN) is adopted to identify experimentally difficult-to-measure micro-parameters of interface, such as interface thickness and stiffnesses, for the construction of the high-fidelity RVE. In order to precisely control the loading path with the consideration of Poisson's effects, the RVE is loaded by force at the dummy points instead of using the commonly used displacement loading approach. Three different loading paths are compared in each case, and the results show that the failure strength and patterns of the RVE under combined transverse and out-of-plane compressions as well as in-plane shear are independent of loading paths.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Composite Structures

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Composite Structures. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Composite Structures, 269, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114024

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205

Subjects:

?? cfrpfailure predictionfemloading pathrvecarbon fibersfailure (mechanical)finite element methodlaminated compositesloadingloads (forces)neural networkscarbon fiber reinforced polymer compositecarbon fibre reinforced polymercomposite laminaelement methodele ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Engineering

ID Code:

155757

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

04 Jun 2021 10:20

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published