Homework 3 March 20, 2019

MECE.544.600/644.600 - Intro Composite Materials

By Adnan Khan

Answer 1:

•Micromechanics: Study of composite materials by understanding interaction between constituent

materials on a microscopic scale.

– Such an approach helps one theoretically compute material properties, and failure
mechanisms of composites.

– Such an approach is difficult to use for large structures because of computational limitations.

• Macro‐mechanics: Study of composite materials presumed to be homogeneous. In such an approach

of study, averaged (smeared) properties of composite materials are used to account for the effects of
constituent materials.

– Such an approach works well for large structures.

– Prediction of stresses at micro‐level is not accurate.

Answer 2:

Code:
clc
clear all
syms E1 E2 v12 G12
S = [(1/E1) (-v12/E1) 0 ; (-v12/E2) (1/E2) 0 ; 0 0 (1/G12)];
C= inv(S)

Output:

From the above output we can see that when the stiffness matrix is inverted it is indeed equal to the
compliance matrix. Though we can see that we generally multiply v12*v21 instead of v12^2 in the above
output we can see that the result is for an isotropic material and therefore we can see that the Poisson’s
ratio is squared as it is the same in both the direction.

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Answer 3:

function [C,S]=stifndcomp(E1,E2,v12,G12)
% Stiffness matrix in principle ditection:
v21 = (v12*E2)/E1
C = [(E1/(1-(v12*v21))) ((v12*E2)/(1-(v12*v21))) 0 ;...
((v12*E1)/(1-(v12*v21))) (E2/(1-(v12*v21))) 0 ;...
0 0 G12];
display('Stiffness matrix in principle ditection')
display(C)
% Complience Matrix
S = [(1/E1) (-v12/E1) 0 ; (-v12/E2) (1/E2) 0 ; 0 0 (1/G12)];
display('Complience Matrix')
display(S)
end

Answer 4:
clc
clear all
E1 = 204e9
E2=18.5e9
v12=0.23
G12=5.59e9
s1=5e6
s2=4e6
t12=3.5e6
v21 = (v12*E2)/E1
S = [(1/E1) (-v21/E2) 0 ; (-v12/E1) (1/E2) 0 ; 0 0 (1/G12)];
p=[s1;s2;t12]
zz=S*p

Output:

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Observation and deduction:

From the above results we can see that the strain in the x direction (zz(1,1)) is very small compared to
that in the y direction (zz(2,1)) there fore it is more logical to compare the larger strains with the strain
gauge. Considering that while comparing very small strain values even the error in the calibration and
mounting of the strain gauge will be high and therefore the readings can be highly off the mark.
Therefore, if I have one strain gauge in my lab I would mount it in the Y direction.

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