Structural and functional failure pressure of filament wound composite tubes

Abstract A numerical/experimental study was conducted to investigate the failure pressure of filament wound composite tubes subjected to internal pressure. A progressive failure analysis was performed using ABAQUS (version 6.7) commercial software employing an alternative damage model implemented by the user subroutine (UMAT). Four thin-walled E-glass fiber epoxy tubes with different wind angles were produced and tested for the closed-end loading condition. Unlined tubes were initially tested to obtain the leakage failure and then lined with PVC tubes for burst failure pressure. The tests were conducted in a high pressure system specifically built for this work. Numerical and experimental results were compared and showed good correlation for all fiber wound orientations investigated.

[1]  M. Uemura,et al.  Probabilistic Burst Strength of Filament-Wound Cylinders Under Internal Pressure , 1981 .

[2]  Pedro P. Camanho,et al.  A continuum damage model for composite laminates: Part I - Constitutive model , 2007 .

[3]  W Sleight David,et al.  Progressive Failure Analysis Methodology for Laminated Composite Structures , 1999 .

[4]  George Z. Voyiadjis,et al.  Mechanics of small damage in fiber-reinforced composite materials , 2010 .

[5]  Jean-Louis Chaboche,et al.  Continuous damage mechanics — A tool to describe phenomena before crack initiation☆ , 1981 .

[6]  P. D. Soden,et al.  A COMPARISON OF THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES OF CURRENT FAILURE THEORIES FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES, JUDGED AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE , 2002 .

[7]  K. L. Edwards,et al.  An overview of the technology of fibre-reinforced plastics for design purposes , 1998 .

[8]  C. Sun,et al.  COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF FAILURE ANALYSIS METHODS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATES. , 1996 .

[9]  Jinyang Zheng,et al.  Recent developments on damage modeling and finite element analysis for composite laminates: A review , 2010 .

[10]  P. D. Soden,et al.  Lamina properties, lay-up configurations and loading conditions for a range of fibre-reinforced composite laminates , 1998 .

[11]  H. Pettermann,et al.  A constitutive model for fiber-reinforced polymer plies accounting for plasticity and brittle damage including softening – Implementation for implicit FEM , 2011 .

[12]  Theodore P. Philippidis,et al.  Mechanical behavior of glass/epoxy tubes under combined static loading. Part II: Validation of FEA progressive damage model , 2009 .

[13]  A. Béakou,et al.  Influence of variable scattering on the optimum winding angle of cylindrical laminated composites , 2001 .

[14]  Peter Linde,et al.  Modelling and Simulation of Fibre Metal Laminates , 2004 .

[15]  Z. Hashin,et al.  A Fatigue Failure Criterion for Fiber Reinforced Materials , 1973 .

[16]  Y. Benveniste,et al.  A new approach to the application of Mori-Tanaka's theory in composite materials , 1987 .

[17]  C. C. Chamis,et al.  Simplified composite micromechanics equations for hygral, thermal and mechanical properties , 1983 .

[18]  Fernand Ellyin,et al.  A failure envelope for ±60° filament wound glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubulars , 2008 .

[19]  Chang-Sun Hong,et al.  Probabilistic deformation and strength prediction for a filament wound pressure vessel , 2003 .

[20]  Stephen W. Tsai,et al.  A General Theory of Strength for Anisotropic Materials , 1971 .

[21]  K. Tanaka,et al.  Average stress in matrix and average elastic energy of materials with misfitting inclusions , 1973 .

[22]  Onur Sayman,et al.  Burst failure load of composite pressure vessels , 2009 .

[23]  W. P. De Wilde,et al.  The use of Monte Carlo techniques in statistical finite element methods for the determination of the structural behaviour of composite materials structural components , 1995 .

[24]  S. Tsai,et al.  Introduction to composite materials , 1980 .

[25]  Robert L. Taylor,et al.  A constitutive model for anisotropic damage in fiber-composites , 1995 .

[26]  N. F. Knight,et al.  User-Defined Material Model for Progressive Failure Analysis , 2013 .

[27]  Z. Hashin.  Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fiber Composites , 1980 .

[28]  Pedro P. Camanho,et al.  Failure Criteria for Frp Laminates in Plane Stress , 2013 .

[29]  Heinz E. Pettermann,et al.  Fiber Reinforced Laminates: Progressive Damage Modeling Based on Failure Mechanisms , 2008 .

[30]  Julio F. Davalos,et al.  Progressive Failure Analysis of Laminated Composite Beams , 1996 .

[31]  Stephen W. Tsai,et al.  Anisotropic strength of composites , 1965 .

[32]  Heinz E. Pettermann,et al.  A continuum damage model for fiber reinforced laminates based on ply failure mechanisms , 2006 .