Abstract
Premature fracture of weaker fibres causes stress disturbances in composites. These disturbances are affected by non-uniformity of fibre spacing. In order to evaluate quantitatively how the disturbances in metal matrix composites are affected by the extent of non-uniformity of fibre spacing, a method of calculation is presented on the basis of two-dimensional shear lag analysis. Static tensile stress concentrations in the intact fibres to broken fibres, tensile stress distribution along the fibre axis in the broken and intact fibres and shear stresses between broken and intact fibres were calculated by the method presented, using some examples. It is shown quantitatively that the spacing between broken and intact fibres and that between intact and next fibres has a significant influence on tensile stress concentrations in intact fibres and also on the shear stresses between broken and intact fibres: the narrower the former spacing and the wider the latter spacing, the higher become both tensile and shear stress concentrations. This tendency is enhanced when the number of broken fibres is large and when the strain hardening of the matrix is high.
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Ochiai, S., Osamura, K. Stress disturbance due to broken fibres in metal matrix composites with non-uniform fibre spacing. J Mater Sci 24, 3865–3872 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01168948
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01168948