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The Structural Integrity of Carbon Fiber Composites pp 359–390Cite as

Micromechanical Evidences on Interfibre Failure of Composites

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Micromechanics has been widely used in the link in between an actual non-homogeneous composite ply involving fibre and matrix and an equivalent homogeneous ply with non-isotropic behaviour, connecting stiffness and strength properties of the equivalent lamina with the properties of fibre and matrix. The authors believe that beyond this, Micromechanics is the key tool to understand the behaviour of composites, to be able, among many other things, to propose physically based failure criteria that obviously are established at meso- or macro-level of a composite. Thus, the role of Micromechanics in the understanding of the interfibre failure mechanisms of composites is presented in this chapter. Different loading conditions (single tension, single compression, bidirectional loads and fatigue) are studied based on a simple single fibre model. The role of residual curing stresses at micromechanical level in the strength of a ply in the direction normal to the fibres is also studied. Finally, more refined models cover two questions of interest as the effect of a nearby fibre in the debonding of a primary fibre, and the scale effect in composites at micromechanical level, considering the debonding between fibre and matrix. In all cases the approach is to develop a BEM model and apply the tools derived from Interfacial Fracture Mechanics to deal with the debonds between fibre and matrix and Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics to deal with cracks running into the matrix. It is noticeable that no material or fitting parameters are used in the developments carried out. In all cases studied, experimental evidences are presented to support numerical predictions.

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This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science/Economy and Competitiveness and the Junta de Andalucía (Projects MAT2013-45069-P, DPI 2012-37187 and P11-TEP-7093).

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    Federico París, Elena Correa & Vladislav Mantič

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París, F., Correa, E., Mantič, V. (2017). Micromechanical Evidences on Interfibre Failure of Composites. In: Beaumont, P., Soutis, C., Hodzic, A. (eds) The Structural Integrity of Carbon Fiber Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46120-5_14

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