Effect of Unit Cell on Elastic Properties of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Materials

Authors

  • CH Sai Krishna  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • S Suneel Kumar  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • Siva Bhaskara Rao Devireddy  Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India
  • Anand Babu Kotta  Department of Metallurgical and materials engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India

Keywords:

Fiber composite, finite element analysis, Micromechanics, Unit cell, Volume fraction.

Abstract

The mechanics of fiber reinforced composites are complex due to their anisotropic and heterogeneous characteristics. The present work is to evaluate the material properties of fiber reinforced composites for different volume fractions up to 60%. A numerical homogenization technique based on the finite element analysis (FEA) with unit cell was used to evaluate the material properties of unidirectional Kevlar fiber reinforced Epoxy composite. A three-dimensional single and multiple unit cell micromechanical models have been developed by using ANSYS software. The material properties obtained using the numerical homogenization techniques were compared with different analytical methods like rule of mixture, Halpin-Tsai, and periodic microstructure methods. The effect of volume fraction of fiber on predicted material properties of composite is also studied.

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2016-02-25

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Volume 2, Issue 1, January-February-2016

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CH Sai Krishna, S Suneel Kumar, Siva Bhaskara Rao Devireddy, Anand Babu Kotta, " Effect of Unit Cell on Elastic Properties of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Materials, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp.282-286, January-February-2016.