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Tests of cross-ply composite tubes were performed under combined axial and torsional loading up to failure. Strength properties and failure mechanisms were evaluated with reference to the biaxiality ratio of the loading. The scattering of the biaxial strength data was analyzed using the Weibull distribution. The axial contraction of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) tubes under biaxial loading was investigated theoretically and experimentally. Artificial neural networks were introduced to predict the failure strength using the algorithm of the error back-propagation. The prediction was also made by the Tsai-Wu theory using the experimental data and by the combined optimized tensor-polynomial theory. A comparison shows that the artificial neural network has the smallest root-mean square (RMS) error of the three prediction methods. The prediction of the axial contraction of the tubes correlates well with the results of a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) of the testing machine. From the phenomenological analysis of the failure and the fractographic observations of the fracture surface, three types of failure modes and microscopic failure were investigated, depending on the biaxiality ratio, and the corresponding failure mechanisms are suggested.
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Submitted to the Tenth International Conference on Mechanics of Composite Materials, Riga, April 20–23, 1998.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790–784, Korea. Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 38–56, January–February, 1998.
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Lee, C.S., Hwang, W., Park, H.C. et al. Static strength and failure mechanism of CFRP under biaxial loadings. Mech Compos Mater 34, 28–42 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256140
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