TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental and numerical analysis on normalization of picture frame tests for composite materials
AU - Peng, X. Q.
AU - Cao, J.
AU - Chen, J.
AU - Xue, P.
AU - Lussier, D. S.
AU - Liu, L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the NSF Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation (DMI-9900185) and Ford Motor Company for their support of this research. The helpful discussions with Prof. Tongxi Yu at HKUST are greatly appreciated.
Copyright:
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PY - 2004/1
Y1 - 2004/1
N2 - Material characterization of woven fiber reinforced composites is one of the critical issues in promoting their applications. Existing experimental tests for characterizing the material behavior of textile composites include the shear frame test, biaxial tensile test and bias extension test. Each test method has its own merits as well as its disadvantages. One important question is how to correlate testing data from different laboratories, specifically, how to compare the data? Should we normalize the reaction force by the side length or by the area of the composite sheet in the shear frame test? In this paper, we discuss this question from the energy point of view with the assistance of numerical simulations, and present experimental results designed to address this problem. Our answer to this question is 'it depends', i.e., how to normalize the data depends on the experimental configuration.
AB - Material characterization of woven fiber reinforced composites is one of the critical issues in promoting their applications. Existing experimental tests for characterizing the material behavior of textile composites include the shear frame test, biaxial tensile test and bias extension test. Each test method has its own merits as well as its disadvantages. One important question is how to correlate testing data from different laboratories, specifically, how to compare the data? Should we normalize the reaction force by the side length or by the area of the composite sheet in the shear frame test? In this paper, we discuss this question from the energy point of view with the assistance of numerical simulations, and present experimental results designed to address this problem. Our answer to this question is 'it depends', i.e., how to normalize the data depends on the experimental configuration.
KW - Plain weave composites
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U2 - 10.1016/S0266-3538(03)00202-1
DO - 10.1016/S0266-3538(03)00202-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0242582951
VL - 64
SP - 11
EP - 21
JO - Composites Science and Technology
JF - Composites Science and Technology
SN - 0266-3538
IS - 1
ER -