Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11-21 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Composites Science and Technology |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2004 |
Funding
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.
Keywords
- Plain weave composites
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ceramics and Composites
- General Engineering