CHAPTER 5: Failure, Analysis and Design of Laminates

5.1 Introduction

Learning Objectives: 

1)Introduce to macromechanics of a laminate

Review Chapter 2 before moving to Chapter 4 and 5 as it is critical to understand the rest of the course. Cannot emphasize it enough.

  1. Do you know how to relate stress and strain for unidirectional lamina? 
  2. Do you know how to relate stress and strain for angle lamina? 
  3. Do you know how to go back and forth between global and local stresses? 
  4. Do you know how to go back and forth between global and local strains? 
  5. Do you know how to calculate elastic moduli of angle lamina? 
  6. Do you know how to calculate coefficient of thermal expansion for an angle lamina? 
  7. Do you know how to calculate coefficient of moisture expansion for an angle lamina?

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Introduction [WATU] [HTML] [PDF]

5.2 Special Cases of Laminates

Learning Objectives: 

1) Identify special case of laminates

2) Ability to give examples of special cases of laminates

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Special cases of laminate [PDF] [Slideshow]

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Special Cases of Laminates [WATU] [HTML] [PDF]

5.3 Failure Criterion for Laminate

Learning Objectives: Establish the failure criteria for laminates based on failure of individual lamina in a laminate.

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Ply-by-ply failure of laminates [PDF] [Slideshow]

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Shear strength test MATLAB program for laminate [±45]2s [MATLAB] [PDF]

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Failure Criterion for Laminate [WATU] [HTML] [PDF]

5.4 Design of a Laminate

Learning Objectives:

1) Design laminated structures such as plates

2) Design laminated structures such as thin pressure vessels

3) Design laminated structures such as drive shafts

4) Design laminated structures including hygrothermal loads.

Videos

Title: Let’s talk about composite drive shafts

Learning Objectives: Enumerating advantages of composite drive shafts.

Summary: This short video gives you a glimpse of composite drive shafts.


Title: How It’s Made: Carbon Fiber Driveshafts

Learning Objectives: Enumerating aspects that go into making drive shafts out of composite materials.

Summary: This video takes viewers on a tour of a carbon fiber driveshaft manufacturing facility. The process begins with engineering and design, then moves to the winding process where fibers are precisely laid onto a mandrel. The driveshaft is then cured in a custom oven and inspected for quality before being assembled and tested. Finally, the driveshaft is balanced and packaged for shipping.


Title: Composite vs Steel Drive Shaft

Learning Objectives: Compare the failure loads and mechanism of drive shafts made of steel and composite materials.

Summary: Steel are worldwide material. It used in many engineering application because its strength. How if we compare the “worldwide material” with fiber carbon in strength, especially in torsional stress ? Which one is the winner??


Title: What we didn’t know about penis anatomy

Learning Objectives: Relate how mechanical design of composites is related to biology

Summary: We’re not done with anatomy. We know a tremendous amount about genomics, proteomics and cell biology, but as Diane Kelly makes clear at TEDMED, there are basic facts about the human body we’re still learning. Case in point: How does the mammalian erection work?

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Drive shaft design [PDF] [Slideshow]

Man Made Design: A Few Design Examples [PDF] [Slideshow]

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Design by Nature Example: Collagen Fiber Angles in Intestines [ABSTRACT] [PAPER] (Reading the paper is optional)

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Design of a Laminate [WATU] [HTML] [PDF]

5.5 Other Mechanical Design Issues

Learning Objectives:

1) Find the coefficients of moisture expansion of a laminate based on elastic moduli, coefficients of thermal and moisture expansion of individual laminae, and stacking sequence.

2) Find the coefficients of thermal expansion of a laminate based on elastic moduli, coefficients of thermal and moisture expansion of individual laminae, and stacking sequence.

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Thermal load on a laminate

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Other Mechanical Design Issues [WATU] [HTML] [PDF]