Effects of circular cutouts on mechanical behaviors of carbon fiber reinforced lattice-core sandwich cylinder

Fangfang Sun, Peng Wang, Wanxin Li, Hualin Fan*, Daining Fang

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Abstract

Experiments were carried out to reveal cutout effects on stress concentrations, failure styles, natural frequencies and mode shapes of conical carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRC) lattice-core sandwich cylinder (LSC). The LSC exhibits ductile failure induced by skin fractures initiating from the cutout and propagating circumferentially. In the test, the strains concentrate at the cutouts. This is consistent with the initiation of the cracks. Free vibration test reveals the cutout cylinder has identical vibration modes with cylinder without cutouts, but the higher order modes are more complex. Numerical simulations were performed to supplement more information of the cutout effects. The cutout has little influence to the free vibration performances. The stress distribution differs from uniform laminated shells. Cutout has obvious effect to the stress concentration factor (SCF), which reaches to 7 for the skin. Appropriate strengthening can reduce the SCF by 40%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)313-323
Number of pages11
JournalComposites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Volume100
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A. Sandwich structures
  • B. Mechanical properties
  • B. Stress concentrations

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