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Title: A non-orthogonal material model of woven composites in the preforming process

Abstract

Woven composites are considered as a promising material choice for lightweight applications. An improved non-orthogonal material model that can decouple the strong tension and weak shear behaviour of the woven composite under large shear deformation is proposed for simulating the preforming of woven composites. The tension, shear and compression moduli in the model are calibrated using the tension, bias-extension and bending experiments, respectively. The interaction between the composite layers is characterized by a sliding test. The newly developed material model is implemented in the commercial finite element software LS-DYNA® and validated by a double dome study.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [1]
  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  2. Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (United States)
  3. Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI (United States)
  4. Livermore Software Technology Corp., Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1431020
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1564474
Grant/Contract Number:  
EE0006867
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
CIRP Annals
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0007-8506
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Composite, Forming, Finite element method (FEM)

Citation Formats

Zhang, Weizhao, Ren, Huaqing, Liang, Biao, Zeng, Danielle, Su, Xuming, Dahl, Jeffrey, Mirdamadi, Mansour, Zhao, Qiangsheng, and Cao, Jian. A non-orthogonal material model of woven composites in the preforming process. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2017.04.112.
Zhang, Weizhao, Ren, Huaqing, Liang, Biao, Zeng, Danielle, Su, Xuming, Dahl, Jeffrey, Mirdamadi, Mansour, Zhao, Qiangsheng, & Cao, Jian. A non-orthogonal material model of woven composites in the preforming process. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2017.04.112
Zhang, Weizhao, Ren, Huaqing, Liang, Biao, Zeng, Danielle, Su, Xuming, Dahl, Jeffrey, Mirdamadi, Mansour, Zhao, Qiangsheng, and Cao, Jian. Thu . "A non-orthogonal material model of woven composites in the preforming process". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2017.04.112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1431020.
@article{osti_1431020,
title = {A non-orthogonal material model of woven composites in the preforming process},
author = {Zhang, Weizhao and Ren, Huaqing and Liang, Biao and Zeng, Danielle and Su, Xuming and Dahl, Jeffrey and Mirdamadi, Mansour and Zhao, Qiangsheng and Cao, Jian},
abstractNote = {Woven composites are considered as a promising material choice for lightweight applications. An improved non-orthogonal material model that can decouple the strong tension and weak shear behaviour of the woven composite under large shear deformation is proposed for simulating the preforming of woven composites. The tension, shear and compression moduli in the model are calibrated using the tension, bias-extension and bending experiments, respectively. The interaction between the composite layers is characterized by a sliding test. The newly developed material model is implemented in the commercial finite element software LS-DYNA® and validated by a double dome study.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cirp.2017.04.112},
journal = {CIRP Annals},
number = 1,
volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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