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Improvement of impact resistance of plain-woven composite by embedding superelastic shape memory alloy wires

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Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have excellent mechanical properties, specifically, high specific stiffness and strength. However, most CFRP composites exhibit poor impact resistance. To overcome this limitation, this study presents a new plain-woven CFRP composite embedded with superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) wires. Composite specimens are fabricated using the vacuum-assisted resin injection method. Drop-weight impact tests are conducted on composite specimens with and without SMA wires to evaluate the improvement of impact resistance. The material models of the CFRP composite and superelastic SMA wire are introduced and implemented into a finite element (FE) software by the explicit user-defined material subroutine. FE simulations of the drop-weight impact tests are performed to reveal the superelastic deformation and debonding failure of the SMA inserts. Improvement of the energy absorption capacity and toughness of the SMA-CFRP composite is confirmed by the comparison results.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11802243 and 11802241).

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  1. Unmanned System Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Xiaojun Gu & Jun Wang

  2. State IJR Center of Aerospace Design and Additive Manufacturing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Xiaojun Gu, Xiuzhong Su, Jun Wang, Yingjie Xu, Jihong Zhu & Weihong Zhang

  3. Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory of Aerospace Structure Design and Application, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

    Yingjie Xu & Jihong Zhu

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Gu, X., Su, X., Wang, J. et al. Improvement of impact resistance of plain-woven composite by embedding superelastic shape memory alloy wires. Front. Mech. Eng. 15, 547–557 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11465-020-0595-1

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