Sublaminate buckling and compression strength of stitched uniweave graphite/epoxy laminates
- GE Corporate R and D Center, Schenectady, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering Science
Effects of through-the-thickness stitching on the sublaminate buckling and residual compression strength (often referred as compression-after-impact or CAI strength) of graphite/epoxy uniweave laminates are experimentally investigated. Primarily, three stitching variables: type of stitch yarn, linear density of stitch yam and stitch density were studied. Delaminations were created by implanting teflon inserts during processing. The improvement in the CAI strength of the stitched laminates was up to 400% compared to the unstitched laminates. Stitching was observed to effectively restrict sublaminate buckling failure of the laminates. The CAI strength increases rapidly with increase in stitch density. It reaches a peak CAI strength that is very close to the compression strength of the undamaged material. All the stitch yams in this study demonstrated very close performance in improving the CAI strength. It appears that any stitch yarn with adequate breaking strength and stiffness successfully restricts the sublaminate buckling.
- OSTI ID:
- 237726
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9510177-; ISBN 1-56676-376-2; TRN: IM9625%%51
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. technical conference on composite materials, Santa Monica, CA (United States), 18-20 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the American Society for Composites: Tenth technical conference. Composite materials, mechanics and processing; PB: 659 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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