COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (11): 30-35.

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FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FULLY WARPPED CARBON FIBER REINFORCED ALUMINUM-LINED CYLINDERS

ZU Lei, WANG Ji-hui*, LI Shu-xin, WANG Zhun   

  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2014-03-27 Online:2014-11-28 Published:2021-09-13

Abstract: In this paper, the structural analysis for carbon fiber fully wrapped aluminum-lined composite pressure vessels was presented using finite element method (FEM). The finite element model of a typical composite pressure vessel was built using ANSYS parametric programming language (APDL), where the element type and its real constants, the mesh density, and the boundary conditions were respectively determined. According to the American standard DOT-CFCC, the numerical solutions for the stresses of the composite overwrap and the aluminum liner were obtained under the service pressure, the test pressure, and the minimum required burst pressure. The actual burst pressure of the composite pressure vessel was also numerically predicted.

Key words: composite materials, carbon fiber overwrapped cylinder, aluminum liner, finite element analysis, burst pressure

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