bounding surface approach to the modeling of anisotropic fatigue damage in woven fabric composites边界表面的建模方法在织物复合材料各向异性疲劳损伤.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Composite Materials, 2012, 2, 125-132 125 /10.4236/ojcm.2012.24015 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojcm) Bounding Surface Approach to the Modeling of Anisotropic Fatigue Damage in Woven Fabric Composites 1 2 2 2 Chao Wen , Siamak Yazdani , Yail J. Kim , Magdy Abdelrahman 1Black Veatch Corporation, Overland Park, USA; 2North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA. Email: wenc@, frank.yazdani@, Jimmy.Kim@, M.Abdelrahman@ Received June 19th, 2012; revised July 14th, 2012; accepted July 23rd, 2012 ABSTRACT A general approach for the modeling of fatigue induced damage in woven fabric composites and under multi-axial stress state is outlined in this paper. Guided by isotropic hardening/softening theories of plasticity and damage mechan- ics, a generalized bounding surface approach is presented. It is argued that the limit surface is only a special case in such a formulation when the fatigue cycle is set to one and that under fatigue environment the limit surface contracts to a failure (residual strength) state based on the number of cycle, stress path, and stress magnitude. Within the formula- tion, specific kinetic relations for microcrack growth are postulated for woven fabric composites and a new direction function is specified to capture strength anisotropy of the material. Anisotropic stiffness degradations and inelastic strain propagation due to damage processes are also obtained utilizing damage mechanics formulation. The paper con- cludes with comparing theoretical predictions against experimental records showing a good agreement. Keywords: Woven Composites; Fatigue; Damage; Anisotropic; Response Tensor 1. Introduction