Shear Strain Singularity-Inspired Identification of Initial Delamination in CFRP Laminates: Multiscale Modulation Filter for Extraction of Damage Features

Polymers

Ruihu Zhu¹  Wei Xu²  Maosen Cao²  Yunfeng Lu²  Maciej Radzieński³  Wiesław Ostachowicz³ 

[1] College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, 80-231 Gdańsk, Poland;

关键词: CFRP laminate;    identification of initial delamination;    shear strain singularity;    multiscale modulation filter;    non-contact laser measurement;   

DOI  :  10.3390/polym14112305

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Identification of initial delamination is crucial to ensure the safety of the fiber-reinforced laminated composite structures. Amongst the identification approaches based on mode shapes, the concept of multiscale shear-strain gradient (MSG) has an explicit physical sense of characterizing delamination-induced singularity of shear strains; moreover, it is robust against noise interference owing to the merits of multiscale analysis. However, the capacity of the MSG for identifying initial delamination is insufficient because the delamination-induced singularity peak can be largely obscured by the global component of the MSG. Addressing this problem, this study proposes an enhanced approach for identifying initial delamination in fiber-reinforced composite laminates. In particular, the multiscale modulation filter (MMF) is proposed to modulate the MSG with the aim of focusing on damage features, by which a new concept of enhanced MSG (EMSG) is formulated to extract damage features. By taking advantage of the MMF with the optimal frequency translation parameters, the EMSG is concentrated in a narrow wavenumber band, which is dominated by the damage-induced singularity peak. As a consequence, the delamination-induced singularity peak in the EMSG can be isolated from the global component. The capacity of the approach for identifying initial delamination is experimentally validated on a carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminate, whose mode shapes are acquired via non-contact laser measurement. The experimental results reveal that the EMSG-based approach is capable of graphically characterizing the presence, location, and size of initial delamination in CFRP laminates.

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