Experimental Testing of Composite Tubes with Different Corrugation Profile Subjected to Lateral Compression Load
This paper presents the effect of corrugation profile
geometry on the crushing behavior, energy absorption, failure
mechanism, and failure mode of woven roving glass fibre/epoxy
laminated composite tube. Experimental investigations were carried
out on composite tubes with three different profile shapes: sinusoidal,
triangular and trapezoidal. The tubes were subjected to lateral
compressive loading. On the addition to a radial corrugated
composite tube, cylindrical composite tube, were fabricated and
tested under the same condition in order to know the effect of
corrugation geometry. Typical histories of their deformation are
presented. Behavior of tubes as regards the peak crushing load,
energy absorbed and mode of crushing has been discussed. The
results show that the behavior of the tube under lateral compression
load is influenced by the geometry of the tube itself.
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between flat platens. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2000,
(24), 329-346.
[1] Sanjay K. Mazumdar, Composites Manufacturing Materials, Product,
and Process Engineering, CRC Press LLC, USA 2002.
[2] Anne-Marie Hart, Norman A.F. Michael F.A., Energy absorption of
foam-filled circular tubes with braided composite walls. Eur. J. Mech.
A/Solids 19 (2000) 31-50.
[3] Hull, D., Axial crushing of fiber reinforced composite tubes. In
Structural Crashworthiness, T. Wierzbicki. Butterworths, London, 1983,
pp. 118-35.
[4] Thornton, P. H., The crush behaviour of glass fiber reinforced plastic
sections. Cmp. Sci. Tech., 27 (1986) 199-224.
[5] Hull, D. A Unified Approach to progressive Crushing of Fibre-
Reinforced CompositeTubes. Composites Science and Technology 40
(1991) 377-421.
[6] Mahdi, E., Sahari, B.B., Hamouda, A.M.S., Khalid, Y.A., Crushing
behaviour of cone-cylinder-cone composite system. Mech. Composite
structure 2 (2002) 99-117.
[7] Hamada Hiroyuki, Tamotsu Nakatani, Asami Nakai, and Koji Kameo.
The crushing performance of a braided I-beam. Journal of Composite
Science and Technology 1999, (59), 1881-1890.
[8] Gupta N. K, Abbas H. Lateral collapse of composite cylindrical tubes
between flat platens. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2000,
(24), 329-346.
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geometry on the crushing behavior, energy absorption, failure
mechanism, and failure mode of woven roving glass fibre/epoxy
laminated composite tube. Experimental investigations were carried
out on composite tubes with three different profile shapes: sinusoidal,
triangular and trapezoidal. The tubes were subjected to lateral
compressive loading. On the addition to a radial corrugated
composite tube, cylindrical composite tube, were fabricated and
tested under the same condition in order to know the effect of
corrugation geometry. Typical histories of their deformation are
presented. Behavior of tubes as regards the peak crushing load,
energy absorbed and mode of crushing has been discussed. The
results show that the behavior of the tube under lateral compression
load is influenced by the geometry of the tube itself.", keywords = "Corrugated composite specimens, Energy
absorption, Lateral crushing.", volume = "7", number = "2", pages = "194-4", }