Solid Mechanics and Vehicle Conceptual Design

Prediction of Delamination Threshold Load for Impact on Composite Laminate Based on Modified Interlaminar Shear Strength Criterion

  • GAO Shangjun ,
  • YU Zhefeng ,
  • WANG Hai
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  • School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Received date: 2013-08-26

  Revised date: 2014-01-06

  Online published: 2014-02-14

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (11372192);Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (13ZR1422200); Scientific and Technological Research Project in Major Program Supported by Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (12dz1100302)

Abstract

The contact radius of thin plates subjected to impacts with great deflection may be larger than that which is directly calculated with the Hertzian contact law. Two methods are proposed to calculate the contact radius with consideration of the deflection of a thin plate. The preliminary contact radius is calculated first based on the Hertzian contact law. The modified contact radius is then obtained by solving the simultaneous equations of a composite laminate's deflection and the geometry of the impactor. The modification of the contact radius is verified with finite element simulations. The modified contact radius is adopted to set up a new delamination threshold load (DTL) criterion based on the interlaminar shear strength. An approach of DTL prediction for the impact on composite laminates of different thicknesses by different tup diameters using a little test data is proposed based on this criterion. The proposed method is applied to predict the DTL of a low velocity impact on the skin of a composite wing box and it yields more accurate results.

Cite this article

GAO Shangjun , YU Zhefeng , WANG Hai . Prediction of Delamination Threshold Load for Impact on Composite Laminate Based on Modified Interlaminar Shear Strength Criterion[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2014 , 35(5) : 1329 -1335 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2013.0512

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