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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7): 1236-1244.

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Nonlinear Stiffness Analysis of Thick Composite Laminate Under Biaxial Load

WU Chunbo, CHEN Xiuhua, YU Yin, WANG Hai   

  1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2011-09-09 Revised:2011-11-08 Online:2012-07-25 Published:2012-07-24

Abstract: An incremental solution method based on thick laminate theory coupled with a nonlinear constitutive model is applied to the stiffness analysis of thick composite laminates under biaxial load during progressive failure calculation. The 3D Hashin criterion is employed to predict the failure of the individual plies in the laminates. Degradation is performed when failure is predicted and the stiffness of the laminates is updated step by step during the incremental solution. A program written in PCL (Patran Command Language, the secondary development language of commercial FEM software MSC.Patran) is employed to analyze the nonlinear stress-strain variation for different laminates with various materials. The process of progressive stiffness analysis in this paper provides the foundation for stiffness variation analysis during the failure process of thick composite laminates.

Key words: nonlinear constitutive model, thick laminate theory, stiffness degradation, progressive failure, biaxial load

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