Title: Tensile load simulation and validation for glass fibre polymer composites

Authors: Deepak Jain; Amardeep S. Kang

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144411, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur, Punjab, 148001, India

Abstract: In this paper, the tensile damage of glass fibre reinforced polymer has been investigated using the unit cell model. Tensile damage was induced for different failure load percentiles. Generalised plane strain theory has been used numerically to derive fundamental solution variables along with finite element model. In order to simulate the behaviour of unit cell model of composite for a small repeating area having a fibre surrounded by matrix a representative volume element (RVE) has been considered as the solution domain. The results from micromechanical model predictions and generalised plane strain theory have shown good agreements.

Keywords: glass fibre reinforced polymer; GFRP composites; unit cell modelling; representative volume element; RVE; tensile load; tensile damage; plane strain; finite element method; FEM; micromechanical model predictions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2013.056699

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, 2013 Vol.5 No.4, pp.291 - 299

Published online: 30 Jan 2014 *

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