考虑粒子分布特征的复合材料细观力学方法

研究了颗粒增强复合材料中颗粒增强体粒径分布对复合材料力学性能的影响,利用分形思想将增强粒子的概率分布特征考虑进来,对已有的复合材料细观力学等效夹杂方法进行修正,建立了一个考虑粒子统计分布的细观等效力方法.以混凝土为例,分析了颗粒增强体体积含量、夹杂与基体的模量比和分形结构的分辨率对复合材料力学性能的影响.结果表明,这种新方法能够适用于分析颗粒增强复合材料的细观结构对力学性能的影响.     

短纤维金属基复合材料应力传递的有限元分析

基于短纤维增强金属基复合材料的单纤维轴对称和三维细观力学模型,利用弹塑性有限元分析方法对该复合材料中基体与纤维间的应力传递进行研究,研究中主要讨论了基体、纤维和界面的力学性能以及纤维位向的变化对应力传递和应力分布的影响。研究表明,复合材料微结构参数的变化将显著影响基体与纤维间的应力传递和复合材料中的应力分布,复合材料设计过程中必须考虑合理的微结构特征。     

倾斜内锁型三维机织陶瓷基复合材料的细观力学模型

利用平均化方法提出了倾斜内锁型三维机织陶瓷基复合材料弹性性能分析的三维细观力学模型,对材料的弹性性能进行了预测。这个力学模型考虑了倾斜内锁型三维机织陶瓷基复合材料经向纤维束的弯曲和纬向纤维束的平直,纤维束的横截面形状尺寸和相邻纤维束之间的孔洞以及材料制造过程中碳纤维性能下降对弹性性能的影响。基于层合板理论,提出两种单胞应变状态假设分别对材料的九个弹性常数进行了推导计算,结果表明两种方法理论的预测值非常接近。计算结果与实验值比较吻合,表明所提出的细观力学模型是合理的,可以为纺织陶瓷基复合材料的优化设计提供有价值的参考。     

纺织复合材料和结构多尺度耦合的数值分析

研究了纺织复合材料和结构多尺度耦合的数值分析模型。建立了微、细观单胞,给出了纺织复合材料平均弹性常数的逐级分析方法,着重研究了由宏观结构、到细观纤维束、再到微观纤维三个尺度耦合的应力分析方案。对于常用的板壳状纺织复合材料结构,在面内载荷下,假设每层细观单胞的平均面内应变是一致的,在弯曲、横向剪切及扭曲等非面内载荷下,在内力等效条件下将沿厚度方向连续分布的宏观应力简化为阶梯状分布,忽略了每层细观单胞范围内宏观应力沿厚度方向的梯度变化,由此利用细观单胞模型实现宏观应力与细观应力之间的传递,再利用微观单胞可得到纤维尺度的微观应力。最后以一种三维机织复合材料为例,用上述多尺度耦合的模型逐级分析了材料的平均弹性常数,并沿相反方向,由宏观结构分析逐级计算出纤维束尺度和纤维尺度的细、微观应力的局部波动。     

基于遗传算法的复合材料细观结构拓扑优化设计

利用高精度通用单胞模型将复合材料的细观拓扑结构与宏观力学性能结合起来,采用遗传算法对复合材料的细观结构进行优化,发展了基于遗传算法的复合材料细观结构拓扑优化设计方法.以材料的宏观力学性能为优化目标,从随机的初始细观结构出发,对复合材料纤维体积百分比进行约束,经过迭代获得满足设计要求的代表性体积单元.在优化过程中,对遗传算法的交叉过程作了较大的改进,实现了复合材料细观拓扑结构的任意变化,提高了对可行域的搜索效率.分别以极限剪切模量和泊松比为优化目标,验证了所提出优化方法的正确性和有效性.     

三维五向编织复合材料渐进损伤分析及强度预测

基于材料连续体细观结构单胞,提出了材料的三维渐进损伤分析模型,采用非线性有限元方法并结合均匀化平均思想,首次建立了三维五向编织复合材料的强度预测模型。经研究典型编织角材料在拉伸载荷作用下细观损伤的发生及演化过程,分析了材料的细观失效机理,获得了材料的宏观拉伸应力应变曲线和极限破坏强度,并详细探讨了主要工艺参数编织角对材料宏观力学性能的影响规律。     

纤维增强脆性复合材料细观力学若干进展

纤维复合材料本身具有强烈的结构特性,是一种多相体材料.其力学性能及损伤破坏规律不仅取决于各组分材料性能,同时也取决于细观结构特征,采用细观力学分析建立材料宏观力学性能与材料各组分性能以及细观结构参数之间的内在联系是材料科学发展的新趋势.本文结合作者的研究课题综述了纤维增强脆性材料(主要是纤维混凝土)细观机理的部分研究进展,并对这一学科的发展趋势进行了简要地评价与展望.      

纤维复合材料损伤过程的数值模拟

利用界面断裂力学和有限元法数值模拟纤维增强复合材料的细观损伤过程，研究各种主要破坏模式之间的相互转变和影响，指出以断裂能和混合度表示的界面性能是控制复合材料损伤过程的主要细观参数。分析了界面韧度对破坏性能的影响，探讨了基于破坏模式控制的复合材料韧度设计的新途径。     

三维编织复合材料圆柱壳的扭转后屈曲分析

随着三维编织复合材料应用的日益广泛,且由于三维编织复合材料的优异性能是与细观结构密切相关的,深入研究其细观结构显得尤为重要.本文通过研究三维圆型编织中所形成的空间纱线交织结构的特征,给出改进的三胞结构单胞模型,通过单胞的组装和变换,得到编织预制件的整体力学性能模型.基于Reddy高阶剪切变形理论导得广义Krmn型大挠度方程,计及边界层效应,采用奇异摄动法,考虑非线性前屈曲、大挠度和初始几何缺陷的影响,给出三维四向编织复合材料圆柱壳在扭转载荷作用下的严格满足边界条件的大挠度渐近解,讨论了纤维体积含量、编织角和几何参数等因素对圆柱壳屈曲和后屈曲行为的影响.     

基于多尺度方法的三维编织C/C复合材料弯曲失效特性分析

为了预测三维编织C/C复合材料的弯曲失效行为,基于多尺度渐进展开理论,结合细观渐进损伤模型,建立了三维编织C/C复合材料宏细观多尺度分析模型。通过商业有限元软件ABAQUS用户子程序UMAT的二次开发,在宏观结构有限元分析中实时调用细观单胞模型进行细观渐进损伤分析,实现了宏细观尺度之间交互式信息传递和多尺度损伤模拟。利用上述模型对三点弯曲载荷下三维编织C/C复合材料梁的渐进损伤和失效过程进行了模拟,预测了梁的载荷-挠度曲线和弯曲强度,并与实验结果进行了对比分析,验证了基于多尺度方法的三维编织C/C复合材料弯曲强度预测模型的有效性,为此类材料及结构失效分析提供了一种手段。     

三维机织复合材料的弹性性能预报模型

建立了基于等效响应比拟技术的三维机织复合材料弹性性能预报模型．首先将三维机织物的结构单元分解为4个子元(经纱、纬纱、填充纱和接结纱),用几何模型去估算这些子元的体积分数．然后依据不同的外载形式,将复合材料的应力-应变关系等效地表达为3组诸子元所组成的三维弹簧网络．根据刚度系数的物理意义,采用不同的弹簧网络连接形式,并按体积平均化方法获得材料总体刚度矩阵中相应的刚度系数,进而计算得到三维机织复合材料的9个弹性系数．该模型考虑了层内交织经纱、层间交织接结纱的弯曲以及材料内部纯树脂区对三维机织复合材料弹性性能的影响．试验结果与模型的理论预测值进行比较,表明这个模型是有效的。     

Multi-scale modelling of strongly heterogeneous 3D composite structures using spatial Voronoi tessellation

3D composite materials are characterized by complex internal yarn architectures, leading to complex deformation and failure development mechanisms. Net-shaped preforms, which are originally periodic in nature, lose their periodicity when the fabric is draped, deformed on a tool, and consolidated to create geometrically complex composite components. As a result, the internal yarn architecture, which dominates the mechanical behaviour, becomes dependent on the structural geometry. Hence, predicting the mechanical behaviour of 3D composites requires an accurate representation of the yarn architecture within structural scale models. When applied to 3D composites, conventional finite element modelling techniques are limited to either homogenised properties at the structural scale, or the unit cell scale for a more detailed material property definition. Consequently, these models fail to capture the complex phenomena occurring across multiple length scales and their effects on a 3D composite’s mechanical response. Here a multi-scale modelling approach based on a 3D spatial Voronoi tessellation is proposed. The model creates an intermediate length scale suitable for homogenisation to deal with the non-periodic nature of the final material. Information is passed between the different length scales to allow for the effect of the structural geometry to be taken into account on the smaller scales. The stiffness and surface strain predictions from the proposed model have been found to be in good agreement with experimental results.The proposed modelling framework has been used to gain important insight into the behaviour of this category of materials. It has been observed that the strain and stress distributions are strongly dependent on the internal yarn architecture and consequently on the final component geometry. Even for simple coupon tests, the internal architecture and geometric effects dominate the mechanical response. Consequently, the behaviour of 3D woven composites should be considered to be a structure specific response rather than generic homogenised material properties.     

Nonlinear viscoelastic multi-scale repetitive unit cell model of 3D woven composites with damage evolution

Three-dimensional (3D) textile composites have great potential applications to aircrafts and high speed vehicles because of the high strength/weight ratios and the capabilities of manufacturing complex, net-shape preforms. This paper reports the nonlinear viscoelastic responses and damage mechanisms of one kind of 3D textile composites, named as 3D orthogonal woven composite (3DOWC) under quasi-static tensile loading based on a micro/meso-scale repetitive unit cells (RUCs) model. In the RUCs model, the resin is described with a nonlinear viscoelastic material and the fibers/tows with an elastic material. The damage initiation and propagation in resin are simulated by the post-damage constitutive models with maximum principal theory failure criteria. The fibers/tows impregnated with resin are defined by elastic transverse-isotropic material model with ultimate strengths failure of ‘expanded smeared crack’ both along and perpendicular to fibers/tows axis direction. The engineering parameters and ultimate strengths of homogenized fibers/tows filled with matrix in meso-RUCs model are transferred from the numerical analysis of the micro-RUCs. The results are compared with experimental and theoretical values of RUC deformation and damage initiation and propagation under monotonic axial loading. The methodology of establishing the nonlinear visco-elastic multi-scale model of 3D textile composites without introducing the real fabric architecture in finite element analyses is explained. With the multi-scale RUCs model, the mechanical behaviors of other kinds of 3D textile composites can also be predicted.     

机织复合材料的本构关系与成形性研究

对机织复合材料的成形性研究文献进行综述.首先介绍了纺织复合材料的种类、力学和物理特性及其工业背景.接着,从实验、理论、计算3个方面概述了目前对平纹机织复合材料的成形性以及工业冲压技术研究的进展.对于平纹机织复合材料,剪切变形是最主要的变形形式,其本构关系具有非线性的特征.通过对材料样品纯剪切行为的观测,发现了相应的皱曲现象并引入了``锁定角'的概念.大量的实验研究了材料在工业冲压中的可能出现的变形模式及其对皱曲的影响.随后,从理论上介绍了对材料本构关系(包含了拉、压、剪)的系统性模拟,以及冲压过程中有限元数值计算方面的进展.材料的成形性还受到冲压温度、模具对材料的压力、模具与材料表面的摩擦等多种因素的影响.文章对这些问题的研究一一作了简要的介绍,其中许多研究工作不仅得到了重要的结论,还开创了相关课题研究的先河,受到了人们的普遍关注.文章的最后,在总结前人成果的基础上讨论了今后的研究方向,并对该领域的发展作了展望.      

纤维增强陶瓷基复合材料的D失效判据

经典唯象强度理论适用于正交各向异性线弹性体。对于非线性纤维增强复合材料,通过加卸载试验和损伤力学的分析方法,可以得到一种虚拟的线性化应力-应变关系;依据损伤等效假设,针对线性损伤和非线性损伤,对基于应力的经典二次失效准则进行变换,建立了一种基于损伤的强度理论,即“D失效判据”,这一强度理论可以作为经典判据的补充和扩展。针对平纹编织C/SiC复合材料的拉/剪组合试验,进行了实例计算,结果表明：利用D失效判据预测的失效包络线比蔡-希尔准则的预测曲线低,而且,失效曲线的形式与材料的损伤演化规律相关。     

ELASTIC BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF 3D ANGLE-INTERLOCK WOVEN CERAMIC COMPOSITES

A micromechanical model for elastic behavior analysis of angle-interlock woven ceramic composites is proposed in this paper. This model takes into account the actual fabric structure by considering the fiber undulation and continuity in space, the cavities between adjacent yarns and the actual cross-section geometry of the yarn. Based on the laminate theory, the elastic properties of 3D angle-interlock woven ceramic composites are predicted. Different numbers of interlaced wefts have almost the same elastic moduli. The thickness of ceramic matrix has little effect on elastic moduli. When the undulation ratio increases longitudinal modulus decreases and the other Young's moduli increase. Good agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental results demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed model in analyzing the elastic properties of 3D angle-interlock woven ceramic composites. The results of this paper verify the fact that the method of analyzing polyester matrix composites is suitable for woven ceramic composites.     

Experimental and analytical characterization of multidimensionally braided graphite/epoxy composites

This paper presents results of an investigation of a novel, through-the-thickness fiber-reinforced composite material. The generic name for this composite technology is multidimensional (X-D) braiding. X-D braided composites consist of a net-shaped, densely braided fiber skeleton which is rigidized with a structural epoxy-resin system. This material is an alternative to the conventional laminated composite and has the potential for being more resistant to delamination and matrix cracking. This paper describes results of the mechanical characterization of one graphite fiber system which was braided into panels in which two braid parameters could be investigated. The variables investigated included the effect of edge condition and braid pattern on the tensile, compressive and flexural properties of the braided panels. These properties were obtained in the braid direction only. The cutting of the specimen edges substantially reduced both tensile and flexural strengths and moduli. Of the three braid patterns investigated, 1×1, 3×1, and 1×1×1/2 F, the 3×1 braid pattern showed superior tensile performance, while the 1×1×1/2 F braid pattern exhibited superior flexural properties. The development of an analytical method for modeling the tensile performance of the multidimensionally (X-D) braided composite is also presented. The fiber geometry in X-D braids was modeled based on the braid parameters used in the construction of these composites. By the nature of the symmetry of the resulting braided structure, an analytical model based on classical lamination theory was used to determine the extensional stiffness in the three principal geometric directions of a braided composite. These analytical results are shown to compare favorably with those obtained experimentally. Finally, to further validate the ability of this material to contain damage, multidimensionally braided and conventionally laminated panels were impacted and the resulting damage was nondestructively determined. The multidimensionally braided material was shown to reduce the area of damage caused by impact by a factor of three for the energy levels tested.     

Computational studies on high-stiffness,high-damping SiC–InSn particulate reinforced composites

With the objective of achieving composite material systems that feature high stiffness and high mechanical damping, consideration is given here to unit cell analysis of particulate composites with high volume fraction of inclusions. Effective elastic properties of the composite are computed with computational homogenization based on unit cell analysis. The correspondence principle together with the viscoelastic properties of the indium–tin eutectic matrix are then used to compute the effective viscoelastic properties of the composite. Comparison is made with parallel experiments upon composites with an indium–tin eutectic matrix and high volume fractions of silicon-carbide reinforcement. The analytical techniques indicate that combinations of relatively high stiffness and high damping can be achieved in particulate composites with high SiC volume fractions. Based on analysis, the tradeoffs between stiffness and damping characteristics are assessed by changing the volume fraction, size, packing, and gradation of the particulate reinforcement phases. Practical considerations associated with realization of such composites based on the surface energy between the SiC and the InSn are discussed.     

Virtual testing applied to transverse multiple cracking of tows in woven ceramic composites

The present paper proposes a method of virtual testing with a view to investigating the local response of tows within textile ceramic matrix composite (CMC) under various loading conditions. The method was developed on 2D woven SiC/SiC composites. It capitalizes on knowledge on mechanical damage phenomenology and data established in previous works. It is applied to isolated transverse tows subjected to uniaxial loading by parallel longitudinal tows. The transverse tows contain heterogeneities like matrix voids, fibres and interphases. Mesh for finite element analysis is constructed from micrographs of composite cross section. Cracks were introduced into the mesh for simulation of multiple cracking. Transverse tow tensile behavior and data on distributions of flaw populations were derived from finite element computations of stress-state. Results were compared to experimental observations.