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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY Edited by:
Paper 182
Towards a Mechanical Characterization of Manufacturing Defects of Thermoplastic Composites E. Barbarella1, O. Allix1, F. Daghia1, T. Jollivet2 and J. Lamon1
1LMT-Cachan, ENS Cachan, CNRS, UPMC, PRES, UniverSud, France
E. Barbarella, O. Allix, F. Daghia, T. Jollivet, J. Lamon, "Towards a Mechanical Characterization of Manufacturing Defects of Thermoplastic Composites", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 182, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.182
Keywords: buckling, thermoplastic composites, manufacturing defects, inverse problems, simulation, experiment..
Summary
In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of an inverse technique based on the buckling
response for the mechanical characterization of manufacturing flaws of long fibre
thermoplastic composites. Buckling tests are chosen because of their strong sensitivity
to defects. An approach based on the Southwell plot is introduced to distinguish
between global "geometric" flaws (such an initial curvature or a defect on the applied
boundary conditions) and local "material" flaws (such as fibre misalignments, the defect
considered here). Preliminary numerical and experimental tests are carried out
and the measured and predicted critical loads are successfully compared. The development
of a full inverse approach for defect characterization is in progress.
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