Notched strength prediction of carbon nanotube /braided composite plates each with two lateral semicircular holes

• Main Authors: Hsiang-Ju Hsieh, 謝翔如
• Other Authors: K.H. Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f4bg52

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 纖維與複合材料學系 === 100 === In this study the finite element software ANSYS and the point stress criterion (PSC) were used for predicting the notched strength of carbon nanotube /braided composite plates each with two lateral semicircular holes. In this approach, the stress distribution of a carbon nanotube /braided composite plate with two semi-circular holes is first obtained by a finite element analysis, in which the experimental notched strength is applied at the boundary of the finite element model. Secondly, the point stress criterion is used to find the characteristic length for each plate with different size of hole by an interpolation of the finite element analysis results. The characteristic length is then expressed as an empirical function of the hole size as well as the width of the plate. Finally, the notched strengths of composite plates are predicted based on the empirical function and the finite element analysis results incorporated with the principle of superposition in elasticity. It is shown that the predicted notched strengths of composite plates with two lateral semi- circular holes by this new methodology agree well with the experimental results. , with only a two-percent margin of error.