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@inproceedings{Alves:2020,
author = {Alves, M and Pimenta, S},
title = {Analysing the effect of fibre waviness on the stiffness of tow-based discontinuous composites},
year = {2020}
}
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AB - © CCM 2020 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials. All rights reserved. Tow-based discontinuous composites (TDBCs) are a particular type of discontinuous composites and are becoming a growing class in high-performance materials. These materials consist of carbon-fibre tows dispersed in a polymeric matrix, resulting in a microstructure that has an inherent 3D nature, with the tows presenting waved configurations. This work aims to develop a microstructure generator able to recreate the characteristic features of the microstructure of TBDCs, such as tow waviness and local thickness and fibre content variations; in addition, flexibility in terms of in-plane tow orientations is also considered, as the distributions of the latter are defined by orientation tensors. The microstructure generator is able to recreate representative cross-sections of these materials, and also out-of-plane angle distributions, for any type of in-plane tow orientations considered. Furthermore, the effect of the tow waviness on the stiffness of these materials is assessed, and a parametric study on the effect of the tow geometry on the in-plane stiffness reduction is carried out.
AU - Alves,M
AU - Pimenta,S
PY - 2020///
TI - Analysing the effect of fibre waviness on the stiffness of tow-based discontinuous composites
ER -