AS5860 Composite Structures

July Nov 2014

Lectures 11
Micromechanics of a Unidirectional Lamina
Estimation of Effective Elastic Constants

K. V. Nagendra Gopal

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 Micromechanics of Composite Materials
Calculating the homogeneous lamina properties from the properties of the
constituents of the heterogeneous composite

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 Representative Volume from Photomicrographs

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 Representative Unit Cell (RVE)

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 RVE and fibre volume fraction

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 Methods of Micromechanics

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 Assumptions in Micromechanics

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 Longitudinal Elastic Modulus (E1 or EL)

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 Major Poisson ratio (n12 or nLT)

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 Determination of Transverse Modulus (E2 or ET)

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 Variation in E2 with volume fraction

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 In-plane Shear Modulus

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 Thermal expansion coefficients

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 Thermal expansion coefficients

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 Longitudinal strength and stiffness

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 Estimation of Transverse Properties

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 Halpin-Tsai Equations
Of all the micromechanics equations Halpin- Tsais semi-empirical equations are
accurate and simple. Halpin and Tsai showed that the Hermans solution to Hills
self consistent model can be reduced to the approximate form

depends on fibre geometry, packing geometry and loading

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 Failure Modes of Composites

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 Failure Modes of Composites

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 Micromechanics of Strength models

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 Longitudinal Tensile Strength

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