COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (12): 64-73.

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STUDY OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURE WITH DELAMINATION

ZHANG Dong-zhe1, LIN Zhi-yu1*, LIN Ren-bang2, YANG Yan-zhi2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
    2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Spacecraft Mechanism, Shanghai 201109, China
  • Received:2020-01-14 Published:2020-12-30

Abstract: The compression test of composite laminates with different delamination damage was carried out, the ultimate load and failure mode of composite laminates with different delamination damage was recorded, and the influence of delamination on the compressive strength of composite laminates was analyzed. Based on ABAQUS platform, a finite element model of composite structure with delamination was established. Hashin criterion and Camanho criterion were introduced by wrote UMAT subroutines to study the generation and evolution of fiber or matrix damage. Virtual crack closure technology (VCCT) was used in combination with B-K criterion to calculate delamination expansion. Finally, the simulation results are compared with the test results to verify the correctness of the simulation model. Using the same method, the influence of radian, size and position of delamination on failure mode and compressive strength of curved composite laminates was analyzed. The results show that the residual compressive strength of curved composite laminates with larger radian is higher than that of flat composite laminates. If the radian of the curved composite laminates is small, the larger the delamination size, the smaller the residual compressive strength of the curved composite laminates. The deeper the position of delamination, the greater the residual compressive strength of the curved composite laminates.

Key words: composite laminate, VCCT, delamination, UMAT subroutine

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