Design of buckling and damage resistant steered fibre composite laminates using trellis shear kinematics

Xiao, Z. and Harrison, P. (2021) Design of buckling and damage resistant steered fibre composite laminates using trellis shear kinematics. Composite Structures, 260, 113526. (doi: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.113526)

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Abstract

A Matlab®-based numerical tool, ‘SteerFab’, is developed to predict steered fibre patterns and to analyse the mechanical properties of the resulting variable stiffness panels using the finite element software, Abaqus™. Based on trellis shear kinematics [1], both the steered fibre pattern and the shape of the corresponding initial undeformed sheet can be created by SteerFab. Two types of rectangular plates measuring 300 mm × 400 mm are considered in this numerical study, one with and one without a 90 mm diameter central hole. For the plate with a hole, the finite element analysis predicts that the optimised steered-fibre pattern achieves similar improvements for both a carbon-epoxy composite (~6%) and a glass–epoxy composite (~7%) in terms of buckling resistance load, while failure load is increased by about 5% for a carbon-epoxy composite and 10% for a glass–epoxy composite compared to the best performing equivalent straight-fibre laminates.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Harrison, Dr Philip and Xiao, Dr Zhaofei
Creator Roles:
Xiao, Z.Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Visualization
Harrison, P.Conceptualization, Software, Resources, Writing – review and editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition
Authors: Xiao, Z., and Harrison, P.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
Journal Name:Composite Structures
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0263-8223
ISSN (Online):1879-1085
Published Online:29 December 2020
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
First Published:First published in Composite Structures 260: 113526
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
3001812-D Forming of Low-Cost Steered-Fibre LaminatesPhilip HarrisonEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)EP/P021573/1ENG - Systems Power & Energy