COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2015, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (7): 22-26.

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RESEARCH ON DESIGN OF FILAMENT WOUND COMPOSITE SQUARE TUBES

MU Jian-qiao, ZU Lei*, WANG Ji-hui, LI Shu-xin   

  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2015-02-12 Online:2015-07-28 Published:2021-09-13

Abstract: As a class of rotationally asymmetric bodies, design of filament-wound composite square tubes demands both windability and uniform coverage of winding patterns. Based on the analytic geometry, the spatial relations between the feed eye and the mandrel were outlined and the kinematic equations for coupling the motion of the mandrel and the feed eye were derived. Consequently, a design method for small-angle geodesic winding of composite square tubes was proposed, taking the non-slippage condition of winding trajectories into account. A periodically geodesic winding theory was presented and its winding error for various initial winding points was analyzed. The designed fiber patterns were then applied to the practical production of a composite square tube with small winding angles. The results show that the present design method for filament-wound square tubes is accurate and reliable. The obtained kinematic equations and motion laws of the feed eye and the mandrel satisfy the basic winding principle and manufacturability of filament-wound composite square tubes.

Key words: composite materials, filament winding, square tube, small-angle geodesic, windability

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