Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2018, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (5): 25-32.

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STUDY ON MECHANISM AND PREDICTIONOFRIVETED JOINTS OF FIBER METAL LAMINATES

YING Shao-jun1, LI Jian-wei2, PING Xue-cheng 3*, CHENG Li-peng3   

  1. 1.AVIC Changhe Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd., Jingdezhen 333000, China;
    2.Army Aviation agent′s room in Jingdezhen area,Jingdezhen 333000, China;
    3.School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300222, China
  • Received:2017-11-24 Online:2018-05-20 Published:2018-05-20

Abstract: Fiber metal laminates (FMLs) rivetdamage is a coupling damage behavior caused by a complex structure composed of connecting pieces, the connectedparts and the rivets.In order to predict rivet damage behavior of FMLs, Johnson-Cook failure criterionis used to predict Aluminum damage, three-dimensional Hashin damage criterion is used to evaluate the damage of fiber layers, and the cohesive model is applied to delamination prediction. And experimental comparative analysis was performed to verify the rationality of the coupling damagemodel. Effects of laminate layers, riveting pretension, aluminum alloy fraction and geometric coefficients on FMLs damage and stiffness of plate riveting were studied by this damage prediction model, and it provides the feasible advice for the design of FMLs rivet. The results show that laminates with more layers are much easier to debond at the bi-material interface, and the interlaminar delamination at free endsdirectly reduces the rivet strength. Rivet strength increases with increasing aluminum fraction, but it will decrease when the aluminum contentis greater than 50%. Pretensioncan delay the damage initiation at fiber and matrix, and enhance the stiffness of the rivet joint, which consequently endow it with the ability to withstand greater external load. The riveting ultimate strength increases with increasing weight-diameter ratio W/D, and end distance-diameter ratio E/D of fiber metal laminate riveting strength have different effects until W/D=3 and E/D=3. Further increase of W/D and E/D will not improve the rivet strength.

Key words: fiber metal laminates, rivet, damage mechanism, damage criterion

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