Paper Title:

Damage Detection of Surface Crack in Composite Quasi-Isotropic Laminate Using Modal Analysis and Strain Energy Method

Periodical Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 306 - 308)
Main Theme Fracture and Strength of Solids VI
Edited by Ichsan Setya Putra and Djoko Suharto
Pages 757-762
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.306-308.757
Citation Hui Wen Hu et al., 2006, Key Engineering Materials, 306-308, 757
Online since March, 2006
Authors Hui Wen Hu, Bor Tsuen Wang, Cheng Hsin Lee
Keywords DQM, Modal Analysis, Quasi-Isotropic Laminate, Strain Energy, Surface Crack
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Abstract

This paper presents a damage detection of surface crack in composite laminate. Carbon/epoxy composite AS4/PEEK was used to fabricate a quasi-isotropic laminate [0/90/±45]2s. Surface crack was created by using laser cutting machine. Modal analysis was performed to obtain the mode shapes of the laminate before and after damage. The mode shapes were then adopted to compute the strain energy, which was used to define a damage index. Consequently, the damage index successfully predicted the location of surface crack in the laminate. Differential quadrature method (DQM) was introduced to calculate the partial differential terms in strain energy formula.