Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials. Transverse Young’s modulus in the presence of different levels of localized and homogeneously distributed interface damage in two structures with 0.3 an...

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Main Author:	Borghei, Seyed Nima
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48181/1/SeyedNimaBorgheiMFKM2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.481812017-08-22T04:01:30Z Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials 2013 Borghei, Seyed Nima TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials. Transverse Young’s modulus in the presence of different levels of localized and homogeneously distributed interface damage in two structures with 0.3 and 0.6 fiber volume fractions were simulated in a commercial finite element code. To achieve this, a new approach to simulate interface damage was addressed by selective merging of fiber and matrix nodes at the fiber-matrix interface. It was found that elastic properties were decreased by increasing interface delamination for both 0.3 and 0.6 fiber volume fractions. In addition, the 0.6 fiber volume fraction model showed higher elastic properties, but lower when the interface damage was increased to more than 45% due to the higher fraction of damaged fiber. Furthermore, localized damage results in slightly higher stiffness values than homogeneously distributed damage 2013 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48181/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48181/1/SeyedNimaBorgheiMFKM2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://libraryopac.utm.my/client/en_AU/main/search/results/?lm=&qu=Determination+of+the+influence+of+interface+delamination+on+the+elastic+properties+of+fiber+reinforced+composite+materials&rt=&submit= masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General) Borghei, Seyed Nima Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
description	The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials. Transverse Young’s modulus in the presence of different levels of localized and homogeneously distributed interface damage in two structures with 0.3 and 0.6 fiber volume fractions were simulated in a commercial finite element code. To achieve this, a new approach to simulate interface damage was addressed by selective merging of fiber and matrix nodes at the fiber-matrix interface. It was found that elastic properties were decreased by increasing interface delamination for both 0.3 and 0.6 fiber volume fractions. In addition, the 0.6 fiber volume fraction model showed higher elastic properties, but lower when the interface damage was increased to more than 45% due to the higher fraction of damaged fiber. Furthermore, localized damage results in slightly higher stiffness values than homogeneously distributed damage
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Borghei, Seyed Nima
author_facet	Borghei, Seyed Nima
author_sort	Borghei, Seyed Nima
title	Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
title_short	Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
title_full	Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
title_fullStr	Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
title_full_unstemmed	Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
title_sort	determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate	2013
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Determination of the influence of interface delamination on the elastic properties of fiber reinforced composite materials

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