On the Buckling Analysis of Plates Reinforced with Stiff Ribs

This paper deals with analytical buckling analysis of the rectangular orthotropic simply supported plates reinforced with longitudinal stiff ribs. It was considered that the ribs with rectangular and circular cross-sections were parallel and equivalent to each other. It was further assumed that the ribs were rigidly fastened to the plate and that their cross sections were perpendicular to the undeformed middle surface of the plate. These reinforced plates were subjected to the uniaxial uniform distributed compressive loads. In the study, the effect of the numbers and the cross-sections of the ribs on the buckling load were investigated. The results are striking in that how the ribs effect the isotropic plates with low strength

Thermal Shock Behavior of Twill Woven Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

In the current research, the effect of cyclic temperature variation on the mechanical and thermal properties of woven carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites was investigated. To this, carbon fiber textiles in twill 2/2 pattern were used as reinforced phase in epoxy, and CFRPs were fabricated by vacuum-assisted resin-infusion molding (VARIM) method. Thermal cycling process was carried out between −40 and +120 °C for 20, 40, 60 and 80 cycles, in order to evaluate the effect of thermal cycling on mechanical and thermal properties of CFRP specimens. In this regard, tensile, bending and short beam shear (SBS) experiments were carried out, to obtain modulus of elasticity, tensile strength, flexural modulus, flexural strength and inter-laminar shear strength (ILSS) at room temperature (RT), and then thermal treated composites were compared. A dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) test was carried out to obtain thermal properties, and viscoelastic properties, such as storage modulus (E’), loss modulus (E”) and loss factors (tan δ), were evaluated. It was observed that the characteristics of composites were affected by thermal cycling due to post-curing at a high temperature. This process worked to crosslink and improve the composite behavior or degrade it due to the different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs) of composite components. The response of composites to the thermal cycling process was determined by the interaction of these phenomena. Based on SEM observations, the delamination, fiber pull-out and bundle breakage were the dominant fracture modes in tensile-tested specimens

Mechanics of fiber composites

The objective of this chapter is to emphasize the context in which the mechanics of fiber composites is examine