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Composite Materials Overview Composite Structures Modeling: General FEA Workflow Analysis of Composites with ANSYS Mechanical APDL ANSYS Mechanical APDL: Composite Example ANSYS Mechanical APDL Limitations ANSYS Composites PrepPost: Introducing the ACP
Laminate: A stack of lamina joined together in arbitrary directions, referred to as a composite lay-up.
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Composite applications
Aerospace Automotive Sporting goods Many, many others
Model Solution
Post-Processing
Results Viewing
(stresses, strains, interlaminar shear stresses, safety margins, etc.)
Failure of composites
- Buckling of the structure (global level) - Delamination (ply level) - Fiber detachment (matrix level)
Recall that...
[A] = membrane stiffnesses [B] = coupling stiffnesses [D] = bending stiffnesses
Stringer Flange
Fixed Support
Skin
Model 1: SOLSH190
ANSYS 8-node Layered Solid-Shell
Model 2: SOLID186
ANSYS 20-node Layered Solid
Model 1: SOLSH190
ANSYS 8-node Layered Solid-Shell
Model 2: SOLID186
ANSYS 20-node Layered Solid
0.00E+00
-1.00E+00
Primary skin buckling (~20 kN) Secondary skin buckling (~30 kN)
SOLID186 SOLSH190
However SOLSH190 captures postbuckling behavior SOLID186 results in solution divergence after an applied load of 135 kN
-2.00E+00
-3.00E+00
-4.00E+00
-5.00E+00
-6.00E+00
-7.00E+00 0.00E+00 2.00E+04 4.00E+04 6.00E+04 8.00E+04 1.00E+05 1.20E+05 1.40E+05 1.60E+05
Model Tree
Basic engineering data used for finite element calculations Engineering constants (E1, E2, E3, G12, , etc.) Failure criteria: strain limits, stress limits, Puck constants
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Defines a sequence of layers with different relative angles Each layer is assigned a set of material properties Can be re-used in different areas of the structure
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Definition of Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical systems for fiber angle orientation definitions
Results displayed as
Critical failure criteria Critical layer Safety margins, reserve and inversed reserve factors
Text plot highlighting critical failure mode, layers and load case