Failure Behavior and Strength of Composite I-Section Beam with Double Cutouts and Stiffener Reinforcement
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This work is carried out to study the influence of double cutouts and stiffener reinforcements on the performance of I-section Carbon Fibre/Epoxy composites beam, including buckling, post-buckling behavior and the ultimate failure. The cantilever I-section beam with two diamond-shaped cutouts in the web and three longitudinal L-shaped stiffeners bonded to one side is subjected to a shear load at free end. Both numerical modelling and Experiment of I-section CFRP beam are performed. In numerical analysis, Tsai-Wu failure criterion is utilized to detect the first-ply-failure load in nonlinear analysis by predicting the load-deflection response. Good agreements are obtained from comparison between the numerical simulations and test results. For the double-hole beam web, the two cutouts show close surface deformation amplitude, which indicates that the stiffeners make the force transformation more effective. Comparing to the numerical result of corresponding beam with single cutout and stiffener reinforcement, the longitudinal stiffeners can not only play a significant role in improving the structural stability (increase about 30%), but also take effects to improve the deformation compatibility of structure. Local buckling happened within the sub-webs partioned by the stiffener and the buckling load is different but close. With post-buckling regime, the two areas show similar deformation characteristic, while the sub-web close to fixed end bears more shear load than the sub-web close to loading end with the increase of normal deformation of structure. The catastrophic failure load is approximate 75.6% higher comparing to buckling load. Results illustrate that the tensile fracture of the fiber is the immediate cause of the ultimate failure of the structure.
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