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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 182

Towards a Mechanical Characterization of Manufacturing Defects of Thermoplastic Composites

E. Barbarella1, O. Allix1, F. Daghia1, T. Jollivet2 and J. Lamon1

1LMT-Cachan, ENS Cachan, CNRS, UPMC, PRES, UniverSud, France
2CETIM, Nantes, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
E. Barbarella, O. Allix, F. Daghia, T. Jollivet, J. Lamon, "Towards a Mechanical Characterization of Manufacturing Defects of Thermoplastic Composites", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 182, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.182
Keywords: buckling, thermoplastic composites, manufacturing defects, inverse problems, simulation, experiment..

Summary
In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of an inverse technique based on the buckling response for the mechanical characterization of manufacturing flaws of long fibre thermoplastic composites. Buckling tests are chosen because of their strong sensitivity to defects. An approach based on the Southwell plot is introduced to distinguish between global "geometric" flaws (such an initial curvature or a defect on the applied boundary conditions) and local "material" flaws (such as fibre misalignments, the defect considered here). Preliminary numerical and experimental tests are carried out and the measured and predicted critical loads are successfully compared. The development of a full inverse approach for defect characterization is in progress.

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