Hardening non-linear behaviour in longitudinal tension of unidirectional carbon composites |
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Authors: | Takashi Ishikawa Masamichi Matsushima Youichi Hayashi |
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Affiliation: | (1) First Airframe Division, National Aerospace Laboratory, 1880 Jindaiji, Chofu, 182 Tokyo, Japan |
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Abstract: | Uniaxial tensile tests of unidirectional carbon-epoxy coupons are conducted in the longitudinal direction. It is observed that the longitudinal modulus increases with axial stress or strain up to the intermediate level of tension. A fractional constitutive relation with a quadratic denominator is derived by the method of the theory of non-linear elasticity. This equation adopting the estimated higher-order compliance coefficients exhibits an excellent agreement with the experimental results. An empirical strain-based equation is also proposed as a simpler alternative. Averaging formulae for both types of relation are provided for a practical application. The present phenomenon includes the behaviour in a low-stress region discovered by some early work. The consideration of the present non-linear behaviour improves the correlation between theory and experiments in stress-strain relationships of fabric composites with carbon fibres. |
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