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- 2015Effect of fiber positioning on mixed-mode fracture of interfacial debonding in compositescitations
- 2014A numerical study of the influence of microvoids in the transverse mechanical response of unidirectional compositescitations
- 2013Experimental and numerical study of the micro-mechanical failure in composites
- 2013Micromechanical modeling of unidirectional composites with uneven interfacial strengthscitations
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Micromechanical modeling of unidirectional composites with uneven interfacial strengths
Abstract
Composite materials under loads normal to the fiber orientation often fail due to debonding between fibers and matrix. In this paper a micromechanical model is developed to study the interfacial and geometrical effects in fiber-reinforced composites using generalized plane strain by means of the finite element method. Assuming a periodic distribution of fibers in the matrix, a unit cell is chosen including two quarter-circular fibers. By using this unit cell approach the composite material is modeled rather realistically as the possibility of having different fiberematrix strength exists. In the present study two different cases are considered: I) Two perfectly bonded interfaces. II) Two debonding interfaces of uneven strength. The fibers are purely elastic while the matrix is considered as isotropic with an elastoplastic behavior. To model the fracture of the fiberematrix interfaces, a trapezoidal cohesive zone model is used. A parametric study is carried out to evaluate the influence of the interfacial properties, fiber position and fiber volume fraction on the overall stressestrain response as well as the end-crack opening displacement and the opening crack angle. All the results presented are compared with corresponding perfectly bonded interfaces. Generally, different crack initiations and propagations at the two interfaces are seen, which result in an overall stressestrain response of the material that often first depict a rather smooth stress drop followed by a second sudden stress drop. This behavior is shown to be very sensitive to interface parameters as well as geometrical parameters. The interfacial dissimilarity shows for all the investigations, that decreasing the maximum cohesive strength leads to more stable interfacial crack growth, whereas increasing the critical interfacial separation causes a less distinct debonding at one interface before debonding at the other.<br/>© 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved