The presence of waviness defects in CFRP materials due to fiber undulation affects the structural performance of composite structures. Hence, without a reliable assessment of the resulting material properties, the full weight-saving potential cannot be exploited. Within the paper, a probabilistic numerical approach for improved estimation of material properties based on spatially distributed fiber waviness is presented. It makes use of a homogenization approach to derive viable knock-down factors for the different plies on the laminate level for reference material and is demonstrated for a representative tension loadcase. For the stochastic analysis, a random field is selected which describes the complex inner geometry of the plies in the laminate model and is numerically discretized by the Karhunen–Loeve expansion methods to fit into an FE model for the strength analysis. Conducted analysis studies reveal a substantial influence of randomly distributed waviness defects on the derived knock-down factors. Based on a topological analysis of the waviness fields, the reduction of the material properties was found to be weakly negatively correlated related to simple geometrical properties such as maximum amplitudes of the waviness field, which justifies the need for further subsequent sensitivity studies.


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    Title :

    Influence of Spatially Distributed Out-of-Plane CFRP Fiber Waviness on the Estimation of Knock-Down Factors Based on Stochastic Numerical Analysis


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    2022-11-22



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    Article (Journal)


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    Electronic Resource


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    English




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