COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2024, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 40-48.DOI: 10.19936/j.cnki.2096-8000.20240428.006

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Effect of pore-column taper on the compression properties of fibre-column reinforced sandwich structures

LI Hongjun1,4, HAN Yang1, SONG Xiaofei3, ZHENG Shaowen5, ZHENG Chaofan5, SUN Jiuxiao2,4,6*   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China;
    2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China;
    3. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China;
    4. Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Assembly of Industrial Detonators, Wuhan 430073, China;
    5. China Ship Research and Design Center, Wuhan 430064, China;
    6. State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China
  • Received:2023-04-12 Online:2024-04-28 Published:2024-04-28

Abstract: In order to study the influence of the taper of the pore column on the compression performance of the core structure, 15 sets of fibre column reinforced composites with different tapered pore columns were designed and prepared. Quasi-static compression experiments and numerical simulations were carried out on the prepared sandwich structures to investigate the effects of hole-column taper and core thickness on the compressive strength, modulus, specific strength and failure mode of the sandwich structures. The results show that for sandwich structures with core thicknesses of 25 mm, 30 mm and 35 mm, the increase in hole-column taper from 0° to 16° increases the compression strength by 14.7%, 22% and 24.8%, the compression modulus by 25.9%, 31.6% and 37.7%, respectively, and the specific strength by 4%, 9.95% and 10.24%. Failure of core structures with small and non-tapered pore columns is in the form of buckling and fracture of the fibre column, with the location of buckling and fracture gradually shifting towards the smaller end of the pore diameter as the taper of the column increases. When the taper of the hole column is raised to 16°, part of the core structure with the smaller aperture end of the fibre column becomes debonded from the panel, resulting in the fibre column failing to provide good support and affecting the mechanical properties of the material.

Key words: composite materials, foam sandwich, fibre reinforced, compression property, finite element analysis

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