testing and modelling of a severely tapered composite specimen
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Testing and Modelling of a Severely Tapered Composite Specimen. Stephen Hallett , James Lander, Mike Jones, Luiz Kawashita and Michael Wisnom. www.bris.ac.uk/composites. Introduction. A severely tapered specimen has been designed and manufactured at the University of Bristol - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Testing and Modelling of a Severely Tapered Composite
SpecimenStephen Hallett, James Lander,
Mike Jones, Luiz Kawashita and Michael Wisnom
www.bris.ac.uk/composites
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2Introduction• A severely tapered specimen has been
designed and manufactured at the University of Bristol
• Purpose is to be representative of aerospace component features
• Made up from a large number of pre-preg plies dropped off to create thickness change
• Tested in a dovetail type fixture• Purpose if to inform and validate high
fidelity modelling of situations where failure is governed by delamination from ply drops
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3Summary• Overall specimen configuration:-
• Specimen manufacture• Static Test Results
– Failure load/location– High speed photography– DIC– CT Imagery
• Modelling
Applied Load
Overall Length = 310 mmGripped length = ~140 mmWidth =20mm
~11.2mm~39.2mm
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4Manufacture
Key Requirement: Accurate, reproducible positioning of ply drops
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5Laying UpE-glass/914 Contact Pads laid down first
IM7/8552 laid directly on top
Co-cured
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6Continuous Visual Accuracy AssessmentFull thickness
Increasing thickness
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7Edging
Edged with Neoprene doped adhesive cork strips
Contour edging detail
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8Autoclave cure
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9Finished Part • Specimens were cut from cured
plate• Each was 20mm wide
• Surface scan shows well placed plies with good consolidation
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10Test Fixture• For static (tensile) and fatigue (tension-tension) testing
• Quarter fixture FE analysis performed
• Abaqus generated von Mises stress plot• Steel fixture• Titanium inserts
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11SRP Static Tensile Testing Setup
SRP Test Specimen
High Speed Video Camera
Load Cell
SRP Test Fixture
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12Test Curves - Load vs. Displacement
c.v. = 8.8%
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13Test Curves - Close-up of failure region
specimen p1_2 (the only specimen taken to ultimate
catastrophic failure)
=first failure
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14Ply Drop Map
3
2
45
1
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15Failure LocationWhite markers indicate PD 1, PD 2 and PD 5
Initiation occurs above PD 5
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ply drop #4
High Speed Camera Video – specimen p1_8
Frame rate: 360,000 fps
45 345 2345 12345 45 345 2345 12345
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• Random black on white speckle pattern applied to specimen using spray paints
• 2D system used as no significant out-of-plane deformation expected
• Images captured at 2 sec intervals throughout test (i.e. approx 450-500 images per test)
• Images processed post-test using Dantec Istra 4D software
Digital Image Correlation
High contact strains
Failure location
96.3% Failure load
99.8% Failure load
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18CT Scans
PD 4
Arrangement is not to scale
A
C
B
PD 1
B
A
C• CT scan was taken of representative sample
• Shows voids at some critical ply drop locations
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19High-Fidelity FE Modelling• Methodology based on the use of custom (user-defined) cohesive
elements for modelling delamination in the presence of high through-thickness compressive stresses
• Cohesive interfaces defined between every ply, as well as around resin pockets and glass pads
• Required the development of automated meshing software to tackle the complexity of such models
• Meshing tools used to provide realistic specimen and ply drop geometries
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• Basic procedure builds a 3D model from a 2D drawing of specimen profile and layup
High-Fidelity FE Modelling 20
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• In house meshing tool builds a 3D model from a 2D drawing of specimen profile and layup
High-Fidelity FE Modelling
resin elements
cohesive elements
-45°
0°
+45°
• Plies, resin pockets and cohesive elements are all generated automatically• Creates realistic ply terminations (can be fine-tuned to match real laminate)
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22Test/Model Correlation: Failure Location 22
• FE results were used to predict the site of delamination initiation – useful for setting up the high-speed camera
• 5 out of 6 specimens delaminated within 1-2 millimetres from predicted location
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delamination (shown in green)
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Test/Model Correlation: Load-Displacement• Force-displacement curves for (2D) slice and 3D models
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2424Effect of Ply Drop Geometry
idealised ply drops realistic
ply drops
‘idealised’ ply drop ‘realistic’ ply drop
‘idealised’ ply drop ‘realistic’ ply drop
resin elements
cohesive elements
-45°
0°
+45°
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25Effect of Friction
= 0.3
= 0.0 = 0.1 = 0.2
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26Effect of Voids
1 2
3
No voids
1 2
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27Summary
• Testing has been undertaken on a severely tapered specimen with multiple ply drops
• Failure occurs in the region ahead of the contact area where delamination is not suppressed by compression
• Various experimental techniques have been used to identify failure initiation location
• Finite element analysis has been able to predict very similar behaviour
• Model results are very susceptible to small details; resin pocket geometry, friction, voids which need to be captured accurately from experimental work
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The authors would like to acknowledge Rolls-Royce plc for funding this work
Acknowledgements