Modelagem de tubos de materiais compósitos laminados considerando efeitos de temperatura e falhas

Abstract

In last decades, there has been a relevant growth in the application of composite materials reinforced by fibers in the several industries, especially the aeronautical, automotive, construction and offshore structures segments. How the composites exhibit relationships stiffness/weight and resistance/high weight, and other interesting features compared with other materials, they have been increasingly used to replace conventional materials. The present work has as objective to develop a study about laminated polymeric composite tubes subjected to thermomechanical loads. The laminae are composed of polymeric matrix involving unidirectional long fiber reinforcement. The walls of the studied tubes present various lamination schemes and different constituent materials. The analyses are set by analytical formulations that permits obtaining the displacements, stresses and strains, as well as verification failures in the laminae. Different empirical and semi-empirical analytical models are used for failure analyses. Effects of thermomechanical loads, such as internal pressure, bending, and temperature changes are considered. The analyzed cases consist of tubes with walls comprised of several layers with different directions of fibers, some including laminae sand impregnated with resin. The results are also compared with other available in the literature. It is verified that the Tsai-Wu criterion provides superior results to the other two failure models used in the work, especially for angles greater than 50°. Moreover, this criterion obtained an inconsistent result in the analysis of the temperature effects for the laminae [+55°/−55°]2.