Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering
>> 2020,
Volume 15,
Issue 4
doi:
10.1007/s11465-020-0595-1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Improvement of impact resistance of plain-woven composite by embedding superelastic shape memory alloy wires
. Unmanned System Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.. State IJR Center of Aerospace Design and Additive Manufacturing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.. Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory of Aerospace Structure Design and Application, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Received: 2020-09-03
Accepted: 2020-09-25
Available online: 2020-09-25
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Abstract
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have excellent mechanical properties, specifically, high specific stiffness and strength. However, most CFRP composites exhibit poor impact resistance. To overcome this limitation, this study presents a new plain-woven CFRP composite embedded with superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) wires. Composite specimens are fabricated using the vacuum-assisted resin injection method. Drop-weight impact tests are conducted on composite specimens with and without SMA wires to evaluate the improvement of impact resistance. The material models of the CFRP composite and superelastic SMA wire are introduced and implemented into a finite element (FE) software by the explicit user-defined material subroutine. FE simulations of the drop-weight impact tests are performed to reveal the superelastic deformation and debonding failure of the SMA inserts. Improvement of the energy absorption capacity and toughness of the SMA-CFRP composite is confirmed by the comparison results.
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