EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF STACKINGSEQUENCE ON AXIAL CRUSH PERFORMANCE OF FOAM-FILLED GFRPRECTANGULAR TUBES MANUFACTURED USING VARI PROCESS

Abstract

Abstract: Known as a critical design parameter for energy absorbers, the laminate stacking sequence can affect the overall property of laminated composite structures during crush. However, a proper investigation of the effect of stacking sequence still needs to be addressed given the influence of other design parameters such as the manufacturing process. Many analyses have been done so far to understand this effect on axial crush performance of foam-filled GFRP tubes, but most of the tubes used were manufactured using pultrusion, winding or hand layup processes. In this paper, we investigate the effect of stacking sequences on a recently developed kind of foam-filled GFRP tubes manufactured using vacuum assisted resin infusion (VARI) process. Under axial crush loading, we experimentally and numerically investigate the foam-filled GFRP rectangular tubes. The fiber stacking sequence which can achieve the best energy absorption performance were obtained.

Key words: stacking sequences, VARI process, foam-filled GFRP tubes, crush performance, CZM

CLC Number:

TB332

TAPA Arnauld Robert, WANG Ji-hui, WANG Chang-zeng, YUNUSA Mujaheed. EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF STACKINGSEQUENCE ON AXIAL CRUSH PERFORMANCE OF FOAM-FILLED GFRPRECTANGULAR TUBES MANUFACTURED USING VARI PROCESS[J]. Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites, 2018, 0(9): 87-97.

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