Failure Analysis of Graphite Epoxy Composite Plate Under Transverse Sinusoidal Load

  • Authors

    • Nor Fazli Adull Manan
    • Mohammad Firdaus Mohd Jam
    • Shishir Kumar Sahu
    • Jamaluddin Mahmud
    2018-07-21
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.11.15931
  • ANSYS, composite laminate, failure analysis, transverse sinusoidal load.

  • Abstract

    Composite material become interest on various applications in wide industry globally. The selection of composite material due to its versatile properties for instance high specific strength. Besides, the properties of composite material also tailorable for various application including automotive, aerospace and marine industry. The objective of this study is to perform the failure analysis of composite material under transverse sinusoidal load. Both failure criteria, Maximum Stress and Tsai-Wu Failure Criteria that provided in ANSYS used to carry out the analysis. Various aspect ratios will be used which are 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 to perform the analysis with different thickness of laminate. Next, the boundary condition of the plate was set to simply and clamp supported. The finite element analysis of graphite/epoxy laminate with layup of (0/90/90/0) performed to determine the failure loads (First Ply Failure, FPF and Last Ply Failure, LPF loads). The un-normalized load obtained from the analysis is converted to normalized load using equation given. Finally, normalized load is plotted against aspect ratio for both failure criteria and boundary conditions.

     

     

  • References

    1. [1] R. Baptista, A. Mendão, F. Rodrigues, and M. Guedes, “Effect of high graphite filler contents on the mechanical and tribological failure behavior of epoxy matrix composites,†Theor. Appl. Fract. Mech., vol. 85, pp. 113–124, 2016.

      [2] A. H. Samsudin, A. K. Hussain, and J. Mahmud, “Deformation and failure analysis of symmetric and antisymmetric graphite/epoxy laminate due to variations in fiber orientation,†ARPN J. Eng. Appl. Sci., vol. 10, no. 17, 2015.

      [3] P. Tasneem, A.-Z. Khalid, and F. K. S. Al-Jahwari, “Effects of Boundary Conditions in Laminated Composite Plates Using Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory,†Appl. Compos. Mater., vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 499–514, 2010.

      [4] M. N. Nahas, “Survey of failure and post-failure theories of laminated fiber-reinforced composites,†J. Compos. Technol. Res., vol. 8, pp. 138–153, 1986.

      [5] S. Swaddiwudhipong and Z. S. Liu, “Response of laminated composite plates and shells,†Compos. Struct., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 21–32, 1997.

      [6] A. K. Gupta, B. P. Patel, and Y. Nath, “Continuum damage modeling of composite laminated plates using higher order theory,†Compos. Struct., vol. 99, pp. 141–151, 2013.

      [7] M. Romanowicz, “Determination of the first ply failure load for a cross ply laminate subjected to uniaxial tension through computational micromechanics,†Int. J. Solids Struct., vol. 51, no. 13, pp. 2549–2556, 2014.

      [8] Y. X. Zhang and C. H. Yang, “Recent developments in finite element analysis for laminated composite plates,†Compos. Struct., vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 147–157, 2009.

      [9] P. Camanho, “Failure criteria for fibre-reinforced polymer composites,†Demegi, Feup, no. Figure 1, pp. 1–13, 2002.

      [10] C. S. R. & S. A. YENDA KESAVARAO, “Design and Simulation of Laminated Graphite/Epoxy Composite Using Numerical Method and Fem,†BEST Int. J. Manag. Inf. Technol. Eng. (BEST IJMITE), vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 13–22, 2015.

      [11] J. Mahmud, A. F. Ismail, and T. Pervez, “Employing a failure criterion with interaction terms to simulate the progressive failure of carbon-epoxy laminates,†J. -The Inst. Eng., vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 6–14, 2005.

  • Downloads

  • How to Cite

    Fazli Adull Manan, N., Firdaus Mohd Jam, M., Kumar Sahu, S., & Mahmud, J. (2018). Failure Analysis of Graphite Epoxy Composite Plate Under Transverse Sinusoidal Load. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.11), 62-66. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.11.15931

    Received date: 2018-07-20

    Accepted date: 2018-07-20

    Published date: 2018-07-21