Non-Destructive Evaluation of Damage Around Circular Holes in Bolted Composite Laminates (original) (raw)

Design Engineering and Computers and Information in Engineering, Parts A and B, 2006

Abstract

One of the more formidable problems in composite research is the study of delamination and other failure modes in the vicinity of a circular hole in a laminate, e.g., a circular cut-out in a structure. In this problem, the singularity varies around the periphery of the hole as well as through the thickness of the laminate. Under tensile loading, the early failure modes in this problem consist of transverse cracks in various layers, so that delamination occurs only after other damage is precipitated, followed by fiber breakage leading to failure. A literature review of past work clearly shows that mechanical testing with simultaneous AE monitoring is a fruitful technique to study damage accumulation in composite systems. The acoustic-ultrasonic (AU) testing combines the high sensitivity of ultrasonics to internal damage and the method of acoustic emission technique to characterize elastic waves. As damage accumulates in the specimen along the wave path, the net internal damping incre...

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