Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Electromechanical Engineering,National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract
In this paper, numerical study on crack location and crack number on the responses of representative unit cell of unidirectional composites under tension is conducted by extended finite element method (XFEM). The composites studied here are single-crack composites, two-crack composites, and three-crack composites. Each of the composites is under tension in the fiber (x) direction. From the simulation results, the averaged strength decreases as the embedded crack number increases when composites are under tension. One interesting finding is that a crack could be a dominant crack but becomes inactive when other different cracks are in presence under the same loads. The responses of representative unit cell of composites depend upon crack location and the applied loading direction. The results from these simulations can also explain why there is discrepancy of strength prediction from the composites manufactured under the same conditions. The simulation method presented here in this paper can be used to model degree of defects (by modelling the number of cracks) and stochastic characteristics of ultimate strength (by modelling distribution of crack strength).
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Ceramics and Composites
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