Journal
MECHANICS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 28, Issue 21, Pages 2177-2189Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15376494.2020.1721622
Keywords
Composites; preset cracks; local stress distribution; nonlinear; effective properties
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51675397, 51805400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2018JZ5005]
- China Scholarship Council [201706965037]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JB180414]
- 111 Project [B14042]
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This article introduces a parametric microscopic model with preset cracks for evaluating the influence of initial damages on the mechanical properties of composites. The effectiveness of the method is assessed by comparing local stress distributions and effective modulus with other numerical methods, and the relationships between crack evolution and microscopic stress field are discussed in details. It is found that the maximum stress at the crack tip varies differently with crack evolution in fiber or matrix materials.
Initial microscopic damages, fiber fracture, and matrix cracking, usually occur in composites during their fabrication and secondary processing. Evaluating these initial damages influence on the mechanical properties of composites has a great importance for their optimal design. To this end, a parametric microscopic model with preset cracks was proposed in this article. The effectiveness of the method was assessed by comparing of the local stress distributions and effective modulus with other numerical methods. To describe nonlinear deformations of resin matrix, a viscoplastic constitutive model was introduced. On this basis, the relationships between the crack evolution and the microscopic stress field are discussed in details. It was revealed that the maximum stress at the crack tip presents different variations with the crack evolution in fiber or matrix materials.
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