COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 27-31.

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON BULKING DEFECTS EFFECTING ON COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF THICK FRP LAMINATES

XU Song-jian, SUN Qi-li, WANG Jia-ji, FENG Peng*   

  1. The key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Safety and Durability of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2013-09-05 Published:2021-09-17

Abstract: FRP(fiber reinforced polymer) materials made from VARTM (Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding) could be manufactured with various bulking defects. This article employs thick-slab FRP members which was manufactured by steel molds of high precision to derive the load-displacement curve of normal specimen and bulking specimen under compression. The experiment shows that the compression capacity of bulking members is merely 66.4% of the normal specimen, with the axial cracks occurring near the outward resin part. With FEM methods, a strength criterion of Mises stress of resin is derived and testified.

Key words: VARTM, composite materials, bulking, compression strength, damage mode, ultimate bearing capacity

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