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Modelling of damage evolution in braided composites: recent developments

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posted on 2021-03-24, 10:31 authored by Chen Wang, Anish RoyAnish Roy, Vadim SilberschmidtVadim Silberschmidt, Zhong Chen
Composites reinforced with woven or braided textiles exhibit high structural stability and excellent damage tolerance thanks to yarn interlacing. With their high stiffness-to-weight and strength-to-weight ratios, braided composites are attractive for aerospace and automotive components as well as sports protective equipment. In these potential applications, components are typically subjected to multi-directional static, impact and fatigue loadings. To enhance material analysis and design for such applications, understanding mechanical behaviour of braided composites and development of predictive capabilities becomes crucial. Significant progress has been made in recent years in development of new modelling techniques allowing elucidation of static and dynamic responses of braided composites. However, because of their unique interlacing geometric structure and complicated failure modes, prediction of damage initiation and its evolution in components is still a challenge. Therefore, a comprehensive literature analysis is presented in this work focused on a review of the state-of-the-art progressive damage analysis of braided composites with finite-element simulations. Recently models employed in the studies on mechanical behaviour, impact response and fatigue analyses of braided composites are presented systematically. This review highlights the importance, advantages and limitations of as-applied failure criteria and damage evolution laws for yarns and composite unit cells. In addition, this work provides a good reference for future research on FE simulations of braided composites.

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Nangyang Technological University

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes

Volume

3

Issue

1

Publisher

SpringerOpen

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by SpringerOpen under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-08-10

Publication date

2017-08-31

Copyright date

2017

ISSN

2198-7874

eISSN

2198-7874

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Vadim Silberschmidt. Deposit date: 18 March 2021

Article number

15

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