Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
2. Hercules Incorporated Magna, Utah 84044
Abstract
It is well known that matrix failure in carbon/epoxy composites is influenced by multiaxial states of stress. However most of the experimental work to measure this inter action has not focused exclusively on matrix failure, and a general multiaxial stress criterion for matrix failure has not been established. To examine this question experimen tally we have carried out a series of tests involving torsional shear combined with axial tension or compression of unidirectional hoop wound cylinders, using AS4/55A carbon/ epoxy lamina. The matrix failure stresses are seen to be well correlated with the Tsai-Wu quadratic polynomial. There is also a strong interaction between the strains at failure, with small amounts of transverse tension giving a significant reduction in the shear strain at fail ure. The effect of σ2 on the nonlinear shear stress-strain curves is also presented.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Ceramics and Composites
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