A Study on the Energy Absorption Characteristics of CFRP Side Member for Fuel-Efficiency Improvement and Crush Safety

2008 ◽  
Vol 580-582 ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Kil Sung Lee ◽  
Hyeon Kyeong Seo ◽  
Woo Chae Hwang ◽  
Jung Ho Kim ◽  
Yong Jun Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Absorption ◽  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Fuel Efficiency ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Side Member ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Stacking Condition ◽  
Absorption Characteristics

Currently, the most important objective in designing automobiles is to focus on environment-friendly and safety performance aspects. For the environment-friendly aspect, the issues relate to the shift towards lightweight automobile production, for improving fuel-efficiency and reducing exhaust fumes. However, in contrast, the issues of the safety performance such as crash safety, comfort level and muti-functional programs demand increase of automobile’s weight. Therefore, the design of automobile should be inclined towards the safety aspects, but at the same time, it also should consider reducing the structural weight of an automobile. In this study, for lightweight design of side member, CFRP side member was manufactured from CFRP unidirectional prepreg sheet. The stacking condition related to the energy absorption of composite materials, is being considered as an issue for the structural efficiency. Therefore, the axial collapse tests were performed with change of the stacking condition, such as fiber orientation angle and interlaminar number. The collapse modes and energy absorption characteristics were analyzed according to fiber orientation angle and interlaminar number.

Energy Absorption Characteristics of CFRP Double Hat-Shaped Section Member with Various Stacking Condition under Axial Loading

2013 ◽  
Vol 535-536 ◽  
pp. 389-392
Author(s):  
Woo Chae Hwang ◽  
In Young Yang ◽  
Yong Jun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Absorption ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Axial Loading ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Collapse Mode ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Stacking Condition ◽  
Extra Weight ◽  
Shaped Section

Transport is the safety and comfortableness during the transportation of passenger to desired location. Therefore, goals in transport design can be summarized as environment-friendliness and safety. Demand for weight reduction of transport has been growing in order to solve the environmental problems. In many countries, environment conservation forces the enhanced regulation on gas mileage and emission gas due to exhaustion of energy resource, adding an extra weight of environment pollution. CFRP(Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) which the advanced composite materials has a widely used in lightweight structural materials of aircraft, ship and vehicle because of high strength and stiffness. In this study, collapse mode and energy absorption capability double CFRP hat-shaped section members were analyzed. The stacking condition were selected to investigate the effect of the fiber orientation angle (±15°, ±45°, 90°, 90°/0°and 0°/90° where 0°direction coincides with axis of the member)on the energy absorption of the CFRP double hat-shaped section members. The collapse mode and energy absorption capability of CFRP double hat-shaped section members was analyzed according to the change of the fiber stacking condition of CFRP.

The Impact Collapse Characteristics of Al/CFRP Members for Light-Weight

2006 ◽  
Vol 321-323 ◽  
pp. 881-884
Author(s):  
In Young Yang ◽  
Kil Sung Lee ◽  
Cheon Seok Cha
Keyword(s):  
Energy Absorption ◽  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Brittle Failure ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Reinforced Plastics ◽  
Collapse Characteristics ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Strength And Stiffness ◽  
The Impact

In this study, the impact collapse tests were performed to investigate collapse characteristics of Al/CFRP member which were composed of aluminum members wrapped with CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics) outside aluminum member. Aluminum members absorb energy by stable plastic deformation, while CFRP members absorb energy by unstable brittle failure with higher specific strength and stiffness than those in the aluminum member. In an attempt to achieve a synergy effect by combing the two members, Al/CFRP members were manufactured and impact collapse tests were performed for the members. Based on the respective collapse characteristics of aluminum and CFRP members, the collapse modes and energy absorption capability were analyzed for Al/CFRP member which have different fiber orientation angle of CFRP. Test results showed that the collapse of the Al/CFRP member complemented unstable brittle failure of the CFRP member due to ductile nature of the inner aluminum member and the fiber orientation angle of Al/CFRP members influence energy absorption capability and collapse mode.

Axial Crushing Behavior and Energy Absorption Capability of Al/CFRP Square Tubes for Light-Weights

2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
In Young Yang ◽  
Kil Sung Lee ◽  
Young Nam Kim ◽  
Jin Oh Chung ◽  
Cheon Seok Cha
Keyword(s):  
Energy Absorption ◽  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Brittle Failure ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Aluminum Tube ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Reinforced Plastics ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Crushing Behavior

An aluminum or CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics) tube is representative light-weight materials but its axial collapse mechamism is different from each other. The aluminum tube absorbs energy by stable plastic deformation, while the CFRP tube absorbs energy by unstable brittle failure with higher specific strength and stiffness than those in the aluminum tube. In an attempt to achieve a synergy effect by combining the two members, aluminum/CFRP square tubes were manufactured, which are composed of aluminum tubes wrapped with CFRP outside aluminum square tubes with different fiber orientation angle and thickness of CFRP, and axial collapse tests were performed for the tubes. The crushing behavior and energy absorption capability of the tubes were analyzed and compared with those of the respective aluminum square tubes and CFRP square tubes. Test results showed that the collapse of the aluminum/CFRP square tube complemented unstable brittle failure of the CFRP square tube due to ductile characteristics of the inner aluminum square tube. The collapse modes were categorized into four modes under the influence of the fiber orientation angle and thickness of CFRP. The absorbed energy per unit mass, which is in the light-weight aspect, was higher in the aluminum/CFRP square tube than that in the aluminum square tube or the CFRP square tube alone.

Minimize the Deflection of Laminated Composite Plates under the External Load Using Fiber Orientation Angle

2014 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
Ying Tao Chen ◽  
Song Xiang ◽  
Wei Ping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
External Load ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Laminated Composite ◽  
Composite Plates ◽  
Laminated Composite Plates ◽  
Load Optimization ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Optimization Parameters

Optimization of fiber orientation angle is studied to minimize the deflection of the laminated composite plates by the genetic algorithm. The objective function of optimization problem is the minimum deflection of laminated composite plates under the external load; optimization parameters are fiber orientation angle of laminated composite plates. The results for the optimal fiber orientation angle and the minimum deflection of the 4-layer plates are presented to demonstrate the validity of present method.

scholarly journals Optimization of Laminated Composite Plates for Maximum Biaxial Buckling Load

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Dinh Nguyen ◽  
Quang-Viet Vu ◽  
George Papazafeiropoulos ◽  
Hoang Thi Thiem ◽  
Pham Minh Vuong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Laminated Composite ◽  
Optimization Procedure ◽  
Composite Plates ◽  
Buckling Load ◽  
Biaxial Compression ◽  
Laminated Composite Plates ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle

This paper proposes an optimization procedure for maximization of the biaxial buckling load of laminated composite plates using the gradient-based interior-point optimization algorithm. The fiber orientation angle and the thickness of each lamina are considered as continuous design variables of the problem. The effect of the number of layers, fiber orientation angles, thickness and length to thickness ratios on the buckling load of the laminated composite plates under biaxial compression is investigated. The effectiveness of the optimization procedure in this study is compared with previous works.

Accuracy of Intersection Counting Method in Measurement of Fiber Orientation Angle Distribution Using Image Processing

2006 ◽  
Vol 324-325 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
Jin Woo Kim ◽  
Dong Gi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Angle Distribution ◽  
Counting Method ◽  
Fiber Aspect Ratio ◽  
Reinforced Composite ◽  
Orientation Function ◽  
Orientation State ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle

While mold fiber reinforced composite material to problem of occasion that high temperature compression molding, flow length in mold is overlong or when flow meets with resistance in side of mold, fiber orientation happens and big change occurs in strength or quality. Thus, in compression molding that use fiber reinforced composite material, orientation state of fiber in moldings is the most basic element that quotes various properties of matter values. Therefore, to clear orientation state of fiber establishing measurement of fiber orientation angle distribution is very important while give correction of molding condition decision, mechanical quality of moldings and guide about material design. In the study, the fiber orientation distribution of simulation figure plotted by PC is measured using image processing in order to examine the accuracy of intersection counting method. The fiber orientation function measured by intersection counting method using image processing is compared with the calculated fiber orientation function. The results show that the measured value of fiber orientation function using intersection counting method is lower than the calculated value, because the number of intersection between the scanning line and the fiber with smaller fiber aspect ratio is counted less than with larger fiber aspect ratio.

Numerical Simulation of the Orthogonal Cutting of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composite Material

2014 ◽  
Vol 887-888 ◽  
pp. 1246-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Kai Li ◽  
Dong Lu ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Yong Bo Wu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Fiber Orientation ◽  
Orthogonal Cutting ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Surface Damage ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composite ◽  
Reinforced Composite ◽  
Fiber Orientation Angle ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced

This work is focused on the study of orthogonal cutting of carbon fiber reinforced composite. A model based on finite element was developed. Through defining ultimate stresses of fiber tension cracking and fiber compression bucking, ultimate stresses of matrix longitudinal tensile and shear damage. Cutting forces obtained from the FE simulation matches well with the experimental observations. Than analysis cracking and crushing phenomenon of matrix in different fiber orientation, the influence of fiber orientation on sub-surface damage was studied, it shows that the cracking of sub-surface damage value increased with the increase of fiber orientation angle.

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