Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

10.22068/jstc.2018.85643.1439

Abstract

Polymer matrix composite materials are widely used in transportation, marine, civil, martial and aero-space industries. Resins used in composite laminates have time-dependent properties making the investigation of this property on composite laminates inevitable. In this paper, the effect of fiber orientation on viscoelastic behavior of composite laminates reinforced with long fibers is studied and a subroutine code is developed for orthotropic materials with viscoelastic behavior in Abaqus. Both experimental and numerical methods are used and the obtained results show good agreement. In experimental tests stress relaxation tests are applied for three fiber orientations of 0, 45 and 90 degree. Results show that ignoring viscoelastic behavior in numerical simulation lead to erroneous, with maximum and minimum values at 90 and 0 degree, respectively. Also results show that decreasing of relaxation modulus in 150 minutes for 0, 45 and 90 degree fiber orientation are 5, 16 and 18 percentage of initial value, respectively.

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