Elastic moduli of transversely isotropic graphite fibers and their composites

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to calculate the complete set of elastic mechanical properties for graphite-epoxy fiber-reinforced materials at any fiber-volume fraction by modifying equations previously developed to include transversely isotropic graphite-fiber properties. Experimental verification of the modified equations is demonstrated by using these equations to curve fit elastic-property data obtained ultrasonically over a range of fiber-volume fractions. Material systems under consideration are T300/5208, AS-3501 and Modomor II/LY558 graphite epoxy. Using the modified equations it is possible to extrapolate for fiber properties. From Modomor II/LY558 ultrasonic data, it is shown that five out of seven extrapolated graphite-fiber properties are consistent with the assumption that graphite fibers are transversely isotropic. Elastic properties for T300/5208 and AS-3501 are ultrasonically evaluated by propagating stress waves through six individual specimens but at various angles from a block of unidirectional material. Particular attention is devoted to specimen dimensions. To demonstrate the need for accurately calculating or experimentally measuring all lamina elastic properties, a brief discussion is included on the effect that variations in lamina elastic properties have on calculating interlaminar stresses.     

Towards stress freezing in birefringent orthotropic composite models

Birefringent composite models are fabricated using epoxy resin reinforced with unidirectionally oriented glass fibers. The mechanical and photoelastic properties of the material at room temperature are determined. To explore the possibility of application of stress-freezing technique to birefringent composite models, the behavior and properties of this material are studied at elevated temperature (at stress-freezing temperature of the resin). The properties of the material at room and at elevated temperatures are reported. The feasibility of stress freezing glass-fiber-reinforced epoxy composites with low-fiber-volume fraction is discussed.     

低温对碳纤维复合材料弯曲性能影响试验研究

由于航天运载器的轻量化需求，高性能碳纤维增强环氧树脂基复合材料(CFRP)已经应用于液体燃料贮箱的研制，但其服役环境苛刻，往往要经受-183~-253 ℃的超低温或多次低温循环过程．目前，对CFRP的低温力学性能，尤其是常-低温循环力学性能的研究仍比较局限，这制约了CFRP燃料贮箱的设计和研制进程．本文针对一种液氧相容的环氧树脂体系，采用热压罐工艺制备了CFRP单向板，并测试其在25 ℃、-55 ℃、 -120 ℃和-183 ℃下的弯曲力学性能．结果表明，弯曲强度和模量均随着温度降低而提高，当温度从25 ℃降低到-183 ℃时，弯曲强度提高约66.7 %，弯曲模量提高约10.3 %．同时，本文也研究了室温-液氧循环50~200次对弯曲力学性能及微裂纹萌生的影响．结果表明，200次循环后，单向板的弯曲强度基本没有降低，并且内部也无微裂纹产生．本文研究表明，该CFRP体系具有较为优异的低温力学性能和耐低温循环性能，在液体燃料贮箱领域有着巨大应用潜力．     

Response of 3-D and Plain-Weave S-2 Glass Composites in Out-of-Plane Tension and Shear

An extensive suite of experiments was conducted to characterize the mechanical response of an S-2 glass composite. The primary interest was the response of a 3-D composite, consisting of unidirectional (non-woven) layers of glass fibers interlaced by through-thickness Z-yarns. A plain-weave material was also characterized for comparison purposes. Additionally, epoxy-only specimens were fabricated to assist in understanding the contribution of the SC-15 epoxy resin in the response of the composite system. Two new specimen geometries (torsion and hourglass) were developed specifically for this characterization effort. The response of these specimens provides considerable insight into the failure mechanics of the plain weave and 3-D weave composites. It was shown that the matrix material has an elastic-plastic response, but with different strengths in tension and torsion. The response of the composite in tension is controlled by the epoxy until failure at the glass-resin interface. The strength falls to zero for the plain-weave composite, but the Z-yarns can support tensile stress until the yarns begin to fail. The fibers contribute to the elastic stiffness in shear for the plain-weave material, but the failure strength in shear is the same as the matrix. The 3-D weave composite also fails at the failure strength of the matrix, but retains some shear strength because of the Z-yarns.     

Statistical Assessment of Tensile Static,Creep and Fatigue Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP

Background

The tensile strength along the longitudinal direction of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) constitutes important data for the reliable design of CFRP structures. Our earlier reports proposed the formulations for the statistical static, creep, and fatigue strengths of CFRP based on Christensen’s model of the viscoelastic crack kinetics.

Objective

This study is concerned with the statistical assessment of the tensile static, creep, and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRPs by using the proposed formulations and the characterization of the long-term strengths of unidirectional CFRPs.

Method

First, the proposed formulations for the time-dependent and temperature-dependent statistical static, creep, and fatigue strengths of CFRP are introduced. Second, the tensile static, creep and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRP are measured statistically at various temperatures using resin-impregnated CFRP strands as tensile test specimens by measuring the viscoelasticity of the matrix resin. Finally, the master curves showing the long-term life of these strengths are constructed by substituting these measured data into the formulations.

Results

The results clarify that the formulations are applicable with high reliability over wide ranges of time and temperature for the statistical tensile static, creep and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRP except above the glass transition temperature of the matrix resin. Therefore, the fatigue strength degradation phenomena of unidirectional CFRPs can be expressed by the time- and temperature-dependent part due to the viscoelastic behavior of the matrix resin and the number of load cycle-dependent parts.

Conclusions

The long-term life prediction of unidirectional CFRPs under static, creep and fatigue tension loadings can be determined by ascertaining the mechanical properties of the CFRP and matrix resin in the proposed formulations.

     

纳米及微米颗粒改性玻璃纤维织物复合材料的摩擦磨损性能研究

用玄武三号栓-盘式摩擦磨损试验机研究了纯玻璃纤维织物以及辐照聚四氟乙烯(PTFE)粉末、MoS2粉末、纳米TiO2和纳米CaCO3填充改性玻璃纤维织物复合材料的摩擦磨损性能；采用扫描电子显微镜观察分析了其磨损表面形貌．结果表明，辐照PTFE粉末和纳米TiO2可以明显提高玻璃纤维织物复合材料的减摩抗磨性能，且辐照PTFE粉末的减摩抗磨效果明显优于纳米TiO2；当PTFE的质量分数为10％时，PTFE改性玻璃纤维织物复合材料的综合摩擦磨损性能最好．MoS2和纳米CaCO3则使得玻璃纤维织物复合材料的摩擦系数和磨损率明显增大，其中纳米CaCO3填充玻璃纤维织物的摩擦磨损性能最差。     

Shear Evolution of Fiberglass Composites Under Compression

Woven composites can offer mechanical improvements over more traditional engineering materials, yet understanding the complex interplay between the fiber-matrix architecture during loading remains a challenge. This paper investigates the evolution of shear failure behavior during the compression of high performance fiberglass composites with varying resin binders at both quasi-static and dynamic strain rates. All samples are comprised of commercially available woven glass cloth with approximately 56 % fiber volume fraction. Laminates with thermosetting resin binders of silicone, melamine, and epoxy were examined. High-speed imaging reveals that failure occurs within a localized shear band region through multiple fiber-weave matrix interface failure with a characteristic macroscopic angle. The shear evolution was spatially mapped using grayscale histograms of the light intensity in the shear regions, and the resulting characteristic angles were measured and analyzed in the context of a Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Optical microscopy and high-speed imaging of the shear formation shows initiation appears due to local instabilities from kinking and microbuckling, influenced by the stacking and interlacing regions of tows.     

Nonlinear creep-recovery response of a polymer matrix and its composites

The nonlinear-viscoelastic response of neat epoxy resin and unidirectional graphite/epoxy and glass/epoxy composites was characterized. Numerical techniques were developed for the efficient evaluation of the viscoelastic parameters in the Schapery integral representation that was used. A microcomputer-based test facility for automatic creep-recovery testing was developed. The time-dependent response of the composites correlated well with predictions obtained using a finite-element micromechanics program with the neat-epoxy-resin viscoelastic data as input.     

碳纤维织物/环氧复合材料油润滑下摩擦学性能

采用半干法制备碳纤维织物增强环氧树脂基自润滑复合材料,研究钢背衬复合材料与45钢在环-环端面浸油润滑状态下的摩擦学特性,考查载荷、速度和碳织物类型对复合材料摩擦磨损性能的影响,并采用扫描电子显微镜对复合材料及偶件磨损表面进行观察与分析.结果表明:轻载高速启动可显著提高单向碳织物/环氧复合材料的摩擦磨损性能,边界润滑状态下的碳织物/环氧复合材料主要表现出黏着磨损特性,对偶钢环上出现的网状转移膜大大改善了材料的摩擦学性能;平纹碳织物/环氧复合材料因表面织物纹理使得润滑油能深入到摩擦表面各区域,在重载下表现出较低的摩擦系数.     

纤维/金属网增强层板低速冲击损伤机理和演化

本文首先通过落锤低速冲击实验测试了纯玻璃纤维增强环氧树脂复合材料和304不锈钢丝网(SSWM)/玻璃纤维混杂复合材料的力学性能,探究了SSWM嵌入数量对混杂复合材料抗冲击性能的影响．随后采用Abaqus有限元软件建立了混杂复合材料的低速冲击模型,分别采用三维Hashin失效准则和Jason-Cook破坏准则模拟了纤维/基体和SSWM的损伤;建立了基于表面接触的内聚力模型来模拟界面分层;编写了VUMAT用户子程序定义混杂复合材料层合板的渐进失效过程．结果表明：相较于纯玻璃纤维增强环氧树脂层合板,SSWM/玻璃纤维混杂增强环氧树脂层合板的抗冲击性能更优,其中铺层形式为铺层III的混杂复合材料抗冲击性能最佳．通过对比发现有限元仿真结果与实验结果吻合良好,表明建立的模型适用于SSWM/玻璃纤维混杂增强环氧树脂复合材料低速冲击损伤的评估．通过分析仿真结果发现混杂复合材料的低速冲击损伤主要是冲击区域的纤维断裂、基体破坏和层间分层;SSWM通过吸收和传递冲击能量从而提升了混杂复合材料的抗冲击性能．     

Residual strain measurement in composites using the cure-referencing method

This paper describes the details of a novel procedure called the cure-referencing method (CRM) to measure the strains associated with residual stresses on the surface of composite panels. The CRM involves the replication of diffraction gratings onto the surface of composite specimens during the autoclave during cycle. Residual strains associated with the curing process are measured using moiré interferometry at room temperature after the specimens have been taken out of the autoclave. The procedures for both the grating replication and the moiré interferometry experiment are described in detail. A method of high-temperature moiré interferometry was developed to resolve the residual strains due to thermal expansion from those due to chemical matrix shrinkage and stress relaxation. These procedures are demonstrated on unidirectional and multidirectional laminates and on woven textile composites.     

固化温度对碳纤维/环氧基体界面行为影响的分析

对界面粘结性能及热残余应力影响下的单纤维复合材料的界面行为进行了分析。采用界面的弹性-软化内聚力模型,用解析法对单纤维复合材料由固化引起的热残余应力、以及单纤维碎断过程纤维的轴向应力分布进行了模拟,得到了碳纤维/环氧树脂在常温和高温固化两种情况的界面粘结性能。结果表明：与常温固化相比,高温固化后,界面的剪切强度增幅不大,界面的断裂韧性显著增加;高温固化后形成的界面,使界面的软化提前、界面的脱粘延迟;高温固化产生的纤维轴向和界面径向热残余应力对界面的软化均有延迟作用;界面径向热残余应力还对界面的脱粘有延迟作用。     

Experimental evaluation of the Wyoming-modified two-rail shear test method for composite materials

In-plane unidirectional shear properties of carbon/epoxy and glass/epoxy materials were measured using unidirectional and cross-ply specimens utilizing the Wyomingmodified two-rail shear test fixture. Simple test specimens of trapezoidal and rectangular geometries, and specimens with tabs were tested. Various specimen sspect ratios were also considered. Untabbed unidirectional specimens exhibited premature shear failures but cross-ply specimens produced reasonably reliable results with acceptable failure modes. Both bonded tab and integral tab 0° specimens were found to give comparable results. Unidirectional and cross-ply PEEK specimens, and angle-ply and quasi-isotropic AS4/3501-6 specimens, were also tested.     

A multi-scale framework for layered composites with thermo-rheologically complex behaviors

A multi-scale modeling framework is proposed for generating the effective nonlinear thermo-viscoelastic responses of multi-layered and thick-section composites. The modeling framework is demonstrated for multi-layered composite systems consisting of two alternating fiber-reinforced polymeric layers: unidirectional fiber (roving) and continuous filament mat (CFM). The viscoelastic behavior of the polymeric matrix is considered as stress-dependent and thermo-rheologically complex. Two simplified 3D micromechanical models with periodic boundary conditions are formulated for the roving and CFM. In addition, a sublaminate model is developed for the 3D effective homogenized through-thickness response of the roving and CFM layers. This framework provides an effective time-dependent material response while simultaneously recognizing the corresponding deformation at the microconstituents under overall thermo-mechanical loadings at the macro-level. Stress correction algorithms are developed at each scale to enhance computational efficiency and accuracy. Short-term (30 min) creep tests on off-axis multi-layered specimens are also conducted under combined stresses and temperatures to calibrate in-situ fiber and matrix properties and verify the predictions of the multi-scale framework. A time-shifting method is applied to create long-term material behaviors from the available short-term creep data. Verification of the multi-scale material framework is also done for the overall long-term responses. Finally, long-term structural analyses under thermo-mechanical loadings are conducted by integrating the multi-scale material framework to finite element (FE) structural analyses.     

Study of orthotropic materials: the interphase model and the crack initiation

Summary In this paper, a survey on the orthotropic composite materials is given. The model of the interphase, assuming a third phase between fibre and matrix with some different properties, is used for the calculation of the elastic constants of a unidirectional fibre-reinforced epoxy resin composite. Their values are used to determine the stress field at the crack tip and the stress intensity factor of a cracked orthotropic plate. The recently developed Det-criterion of fracture is taken into account to study the crack initiation.     

Three-dimensional photoelastic analysis of a fiber-reinforced composite model

A three-dimensional photoelastic analysis using the “stress-freezing” technique was conducted to determine the stress distributions in the matrix of a unidirectionally fiber-reinforced composite model subjected to matrix shrinkage and normal transverse loading. The model, consisting of a square array of polycarbonate rods in an epoxy matrix, simulated a boron-filament-reinforced plastic composite with a fiber-volume fraction of 0.50 at the critical temperature of the matrix epoxy. The effects of matrix shrinkage were separated from those of external loading by analyzing two identical models, one loaded and the other unloaded. The Lamé-Maxwell equations of equilibrium were used to separate stresses along axes of symmetry on interior transverse slices. Axial stress components were obtained by subslicing. Results are presented in dimensionless form by dividing the stresses by the average stress through the section. A comparison with theoretical results for a boron-epoxy composite shows excellent agreement, although Poisson's ratio of the model matrix is appreciably different from that of the prototype (0.5 compared to 0.35). One significant result was that the maximum stress occurs in the middle of the matrix section between fibers which is at variance with the theoretical prediction of maximum stress at the interface. Stress-concentration factors vary from 1.80 at the interface to 2.0 at the midpoint of the matrix section between fibers.     

Micromechanical analysis of polymer composites reinforced by unidirectional fibres: Part I – Constitutive modelling

Micromechanical analyses of unidirectional continuous-fibre reinforced composite materials were performed to study the mechanisms of deformation and fracture of the constituents, and their influence on the mechanical properties of the composite. Special focus was given to the matrix material behaviour as well as to the interface between constituents. The matrix was modelled using a pressure dependent, elasto-plastic thermodynamically consistent damage model. Cohesive elements were used to model the interface between matrix and fibres. Part I of this paper details the continuum model developed for a typical epoxy matrix. Part II will focus on micromechanical analyses of composite materials and the estimation of its elastic and strength properties.     

基于CT扫描的环氧树脂基混凝土裂缝观测与冲击损伤演化研究

环氧树脂基混凝土是一种新型路面铺装材料。本文估算了道路使用过程发生"跳车"现象时货车车轮对路面产生的冲击荷载,根据计算结果,利用落锤冲击试验机对含有不同程度初始损伤的环氧树脂基混凝土试件进行多次冲击试验,研究其冲击疲劳现象。为了准确描述环氧树脂基混凝土的初始损伤,采用CT(计算机断层)扫描技术重构了试件的立体图像,对其中的内部裂缝进行了统计,建立了初始损伤裂缝体积占试件体积的百分比与基于材料弹性模量衰减的损伤变量之间的关系。通过追踪经受一定次数冲击后试件的弹性模量,分析了不同程度初始损伤下环氧树脂基混凝土的冲击损伤随冲击次数的变化规律;结合多次冲击荷载下环氧树脂基混凝土弹性模量的衰减,研究了初始损伤对环氧树脂基混凝土冲击疲劳过程中损伤演化规律的影响。     

Temperature displacements and stresses in glass-reinforced strip

Glass-reinforced strip consists of a strand of straightened glass fibers arranged in a definite order and impregnated with resin. The physicomechanical properties of glass-reinforced strip determine the design properties of oriented glass-reinforced plastics. It is therefore of interest to study the stress distribution in the structure and the physicochemical properties of glass-reinforced strip on the basis of models of a structurally inhomogeneous body and the various properties of reinforcement and resin.