Composites science and technology

Voids, the most studied type of manufacturing defects, form very often in processing of fiber-reinforced composites. Due to their considerable influence on physical and thermomechanical properties ...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0021998318772152

Voids in fiber-reinforced polymer composites: A review on their formation, characteristics, and effects on mechanical performance:

Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-184271doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.08.001View record in Web of Science Record created on 2013-02-27, modified on 2017-05-10

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

This paper investigates comprehensive knowledge regarding joining CFRP and aluminium alloys in available literature in terms of available methods, bonding processing and mechanism and properties. The methods employed comprise the use of adhesive, self-piercing rivet, bolt, clinching and welding to join only CFRP and aluminium alloys. The non-thermal joining methods received great attention though the welding process has high potential in joining these materials. Except adhesive bonding and welding, other joining methods require the penetration of metallic pins through joining parts and therefore, surface preparation is unimportant. No model is found to predict the properties of jointed structures, which makes it difficult to select one over another in applications. The choice of bonding methods depends primarily on the specific applications. The load-bearing mechanism of bolted joints is predominantly the friction that is the first stage resistance. Hybrid joints performance is enhanced by combining rivets, clinch or bolts with adhesives.

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Joining of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites and aluminium alloys-A review

Bistable plates for morphing structures: A refined analytical approach with high-order polynomials

Fügesysteme für Faserverbundstrukturen mit Thermoplastmatrix

Novel textile reinforced composites have outstanding specific mechanical properties and superb energy absorption capabilities, which makes them excellent candidates for impact and crash resistant elements. Despite their distinguished properties, textile reinforced composites have not experienced a broad application yet, mainly due to the lack of realistic failure models, that account for the complex mechanisms involved in the dynamic failure of such materials. In developing appropriate simulation and failure models for textile composites under dynamic loading, basic experimental investigations are required to understand the complex structural and failure mechanisms. The performed experiments provide the necessary knowledge to develop adapted material models, which take into account the textile reinforcement structure and serve for the simulation of the impact and crash behaviour with the help of numerical programs.

https://composites.ptmk.net/pliczki/pliki/semVIII_7.pdf

Contribution to the simulation of textile reinforced plastics under crash and impact loads

The paper presents a probabilistically based damage model for textile reinforced composites in the framework of continuum damage mechanics, where damage is defined as the change of the tensor of elasticity. Damage variables are introduced to describe the evolution of the damage state and subsequently the degradation of the material stiffness. New probabilistic failure criterion considers different composite failure modes as well as further fracture types influenced by the textile reinforcement. Additional questions regarding the experimental and numerical validation are presented in part II of the paper.

Failure Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Made of Hybrid Yarns - I: Probabilistically Based Damage Models

Trigger geometry influencing the failure modes in steel/polymer/steel sandwich crashboxes: Experimental and numerical evaluation

Unidirectional non-crimp fabrics (UD-NCF) provide the highest lightweight potential among dry textile materials. Compared to multiaxial NCF, the fabric layers in UD-NCF enable a more targeted tailoring. Compared to woven fabrics, the fibres of UD-NCF are straight without weakening undulations. However, the formability of UD-NCF is more challenging compared to woven fabrics. The yarns are bonded by a stitching and the deformation behaviour highly depends on this stitching and on the slippage between the stitching and the fibre yarns. Moreover, distinct local draping effects occur, like gapping and fibre waviness, which can have a considerable impact on the mechanical performance. Such local effects are particularly challenging or even impossible to be predicted by macroscopic forming simulation. The present work applies a previously published macroscopic UD-NCF modelling approach to perform numerical forming analyses and evaluate the prediction accuracy of forming effects. In addition to fibre orientations and shear angles, as investigated in previous work, the present work also provides indication for fibre area ratios, gapping, transverse compaction and fibre waviness. Moreover, the prediction accuracy is validated by comparison with experimental tests, where full-field strains of inner plies are captured by prior application of dots onto the fibre yarns, by measuring them via radiography and applying a photogrammetry software. The modelling approach provides good prediction accuracy for fibre orientations, shear strains and fibre area ratio. Conversely, normal fibre strains, indicating fibre waviness, and transverse strains, indicating gapping, show some deviations due to the multiscale nature of UD-NCF that cannot be captured entirely on macroscopic scale.

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Maik Gude

Papers

Fügesysteme für Faserverbundstrukturen mit Thermoplastmatrix

Contribution to the simulation of textile reinforced plastics under crash and impact loads

Failure Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Made of Hybrid Yarns - I: Probabilistically Based Damage Models

Trigger geometry influencing the failure modes in steel/polymer/steel sandwich crashboxes: Experimental and numerical evaluation

Prediction of forming effects in UD-NCF by macroscopic forming simulation – Capabilities and limitations