Hypo-viscoelastic modelling of in-plane shear in UD thermoset prepregs

Yi Wang; Jonathan P.-H Belnoue; Dmitry S Ivanov; Stephen R Hallett

doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2021.106400

Hypo-viscoelastic modelling of in-plane shear in UD thermoset prepregs

Yi Wang^*, Jonathan P.-H Belnoue, Dmitry S Ivanov, Stephen R Hallett

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In-plane shear of prepreg material is one of the key deformation modes that affects defect generation in composites manufacturing processes such as Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) and Thermoforming. Recent characterisation of the evolution of uncured prepreg in-plane shear behaviour during manufacturing has revealed a strong influence of deformation rate and temperature on the measured response. In the present contribution, a phenomenological viscoelastic model for the observed behaviour is formulated using rate constitutive equations. Each of the components is related to an assumed micro-mechanical phenomenon (e.g. friction between the fibres, tensile loading of the fibres, etc). The proposed model is implemented into a user material subroutine for the Finite Element (FE) package Abaqus/Explicit. Model validation is performed by modelling experiments with loading programmes distinctly different from those used for material parameter extraction and it is concluded that state-of-the-art numerical models for AFP need to better represent in-plane shear.

Original language	English
Article number	106400
Journal	Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Volume	146
Early online date	18 Apr 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2021.106400
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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This work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (grant no. EP/ L016028/1) and the platform grant “Simulation of new manufacturing Processes for Composite Structures (SIMPROCS)” (grant no. EP/ P027350/1). Yi Wang acknowledges the support from the China Scholarship Council.

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composite manufacturing
in-plane shear
numerical modelling
defect prediction

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