报告题目：Recent developments in the virtual testing of carbon-fibre composite structures

报 告 人：Wei Tan, PhD candidate

报告时间：1月16日（周五）下午2:30

报告地点：新主楼C706会议室

报告摘要：

Composite materials are finding increasing utilisation in a number of transportation industries concerned with making structures lighter to reduce environmental impact and improve efficiency. A homogenised mesoscale approach for intralaminar (ply-level) damage based on continuum damage and fracture mechanics has been developed. The intralaminar damage model accounts for tensile and compressive failure mechanisms, of the fibres and matrix, associated with a full three-dimensional stress state. Cohesive zone model is employed to model the interlaminar failure between plies with a bi-linear traction-separation law for damage onset and subsequent damage evolution. The virtual tests set up in ABAQUS/Explicit were executed to predict low-velocity impact damage and compression after impact CAI strength of composite laminates (Fig.1), as well as the behaviour of composite laminates under crush loading (Fig.2). Numerical predictions are shown to agree fairly well with experimental results, thus demonstrating a reliable tool for virtual testing of composite structures.

报告人简介：

Education

2012-present, PhD Candidate in Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast

2011-2012, Master Candidate (First Year), Central South University

2007-2011, Bachelor of Engineering, Central South University

Research Experience

PhD project: Improve the crashworthiness of aircraft using thermoplastic composite structures, funded by Royal Academy of Engineering and Bombardier.

Research Interests: Computational damage mechanics, finite element analysis and testing of composite aerostructures.

Journal Publications

Wei Tan, Brian G. Falzon, Mark Price: Predicting low velocity impact damage and Compression-After-Impact (CAI) behaviour of composite laminates. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 1/2015, Accepted. (Impact Factor: 3.946)