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Multiscale analysis
of the strain rate effect on the behaviour and damage of composite
materials
Didier Baptiste
ENSAM École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts
et Métiers, France
The evolution of the damage mechanisms occurring at the micro
scale for a strain rate range between 10-4 and 350 s-1 is presented.
The evolution of microcracks is compared to the decrease of the
Young modulus on the specimen loaded on a high speed tensile machine
(20 m/s). The quantitative data at the micro scale is used in a
micro macro model (Mori and Tanaka) to predict the macroscopic
behaviour of the composite. Experimental results at two scales and
the homogenisation model are combined to lead to physical
anisotropic viscodamage behaviour laws. Illustrations will be given
on different composites: glass polyester laminate, carbon epoxy
laminate and SMC.
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