Role of Laminate Thickness on Sequential Dynamic Delamination of Curved [90/0] CFRP Composite Laminates
SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 6 - 09 Haziran 2016, ss.43-48, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-319-42195-7_7
- Basıldığı Şehir: Florida
- Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.43-48
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Delamination, L-shaped laminates, Dynamic crack growth, High-speed camera
- Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In aerospace industry, high demand for the lightweight structures are fostering the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites in a wide variety of shapes, as primary load carrying elements. However, once a composite laminate takes a highly curved shape, such as an L-shape, interlaminar stresses augmented in the curved region cause highly dynamic delamination nucleation and propagation. This paper provides experimental observations of dynamic delamination failure in cross-plied L-shaped composite laminates under quasi-static shear loading for varying laminate thickness. In the experiments, load-displacement curves are recorded and dynamic delamination events areas captured using a million fps high speed camera. In our previous work, two distinct types of failure modes have been identified depending on the laminate layup: (i) formation of multiple delaminations leading two single load drop in its load-displacement curve during the failure of unidirectional laminates, [0](17), and (ii) formation of sequential delaminations associated with each discrete load drop in its load-displacement curve were during the failure of cross-ply laminates, [90/0](17). Accordingly this current study shows that formation of sequential delaminations is independent from the laminate thickness.