JOURNAL OF
International Scientific Publications:
Materials, Methods Technologies
Volume 7, Part
Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal
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ISSN 1313-2539, 2013, Bulgaria (EU)
, Journal of International Scientific Publications:
Materials, Methods Technologies, Volume 7, Part
ISSN 1313-2539, Published at: http://www.scientific-publications.net
Editor in Chief
Moinuddin Sarker, USA
Co-Editor in Chief
Tatiana Tolstikova, Russia
Executive Secretary
Amit Chaudhry, India
Editorial Board
Alla Frolkova, Russia
Aurora Alexandrescu, Romania
Antonios Papadopoulos, Greece
Branko Marinkovi Serbia
Cenko Cenkov, Bulgaria
Guobin Liu, China
Hamid Abbasdokht, Iran
Ijaz Noorka, Pakistan
Jovan Crnobarac, Serbia
Lev Ruzer, USA
Meenu Vikram, USA
Muhammad Afzal, Pakistan
Panayot Panayotov, Bulgaria
Tatjana Barashkova, Estonia
Flaviu Figura, Romania
Vladimir Solodukhin, Kazakhstan
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, Journal of International Scientific Publications:
Materials, Methods Technologies, Volume 7, Part
ISSN 1313-2539, Published at: http://www.scientific-publications.net
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, Journal of International Scientific Publications:
Materials, Methods Technologies, Volume 7, Part
ISSN 1313-2539, Published at: http://www.scientific-publications.net
PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS OF HYBRID COMPOSITE
LAMINATES UNDER STATIC TENSILE LOADING
Ajit D. Kelkar, Ram Mohan, Mahdi Ghazizadeh and Evan Kimbro
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University,
2907 E. Lee Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401, USA
Abstract
During the past decade use of both carbon and fiberglass composites have increased in aerospace,
marine and automotive applications. One of the drawbacks of using carbon composites is that they are
strong in axial direction but weak in transverse direction and hence are susceptible to impact damage.
On the other hand fiberglass composites have excellent impact resistance, but typically less strength in
axial direction. Recently aerospace manufacturers have started using hybrid laminates, comprising of
both fiberglass and carbon materials. This paper presents the finite element modelling of the
progressive failure analysis of hybrid composite laminates. The progressive deformation and damage
mechanisms under static loading are investigated and compared with 3-D finite element progressive
failure analysis of hybrid laminates under static loading. The model predictions showed good
agreement with experimental data. The present modelling approach is computationally efficient and
provides an effective method for the design of the hybrid composites.
Key words: Finite element model, Hybrid composite, Progressive failure.
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