COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2021, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 106-112.DOI: 10.19936/j.cnki.2096-8000.20210628.017

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EFFECT OF NEEDLE-PUNCHING ON THE IN-PLANE TENSILE MODULUS OF CFRP

YANG Cheng, ZHU Li-ping*, LIU Yan-you, CHENG Hai-xia, GUO Ju-shang   

  1. Nanjing Fiberglass Research & Design Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210012, China
  • Received:2020-09-30 Online:2021-06-28 Published:2021-08-03

Abstract: By transferring the in-plane fibers to the out-plane, needle-punching improves delamination resistance capacity of composites and degrades in-plane properties. In this paper, we analyzed the needling process and constructed a type of RVE model to estimate the in-plane modulus of the CFRP. The simulation results of RVE models and the experiment were in well agreement. Effects of needling density, depth and distribution on the in-plane tensile modulus of CFRP were studied. The results show that under the same needled distribution, increasing needling density and depth would lead to the decrease of in-plane tensile modulus of composite materials, and the effect of needling depth is greater than needling density. A random distribution of needling will cause the dispersion of material properties, and the degree of dispersion will rise with the increase of depth and density of needling.

Key words: needled composites; RVE model; finite element method; technical parameters; in-plane tensile modulus

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