Determination of Fracture Behavior under Biaxial Loading of Kevlar 149

Abstract:

The high crystalline fiber Kevlar 149 has a major industrial application and it is extensively used in aerospace industries due to its significant properties of ultra-high modulus, high strength, low density, high flame resistance. Kevlar 149 has an advantage over K 49, since it absorbs less moisture and has high compression strength ^[3]. In order to explore the vast application, this paper investigates the fracture response of the Kevlar material computationally, when they are subjected to biaxial loading in both tensile and compression. This loading is done to understand the response of the Kevlar how far they poor in compression and rich in tensile. The fiber induced with epoxy is to form as an effective reinforcement. Here the fiber taken as Kevlar 149 & K-49 and the epoxy resin. For easy understanding a sample of two flat plates is considered as a composite structure of standard size, which under goes the biaxial loading computationally using Abaqus/CAE. The pictorial data’s are taken from the post processing study and the data’s can be used to investigate the fracture mechanism of Kevlar 149 & K-49, under different types of strain loading. The output results of Kevlar 149 is compared with K-49 to analyze the behavior of fiber undergoes the biaxial loading both compressive and tensile and also the merits and effective utilization of K-149. It is suggested that this method can be applied to other type of composite materials.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 766-767)
• Pages: 1127-1132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.766-767.1127
• Online since: June 2015
• Authors: S. Manigandan*
• Keywords: High Tensile Strength, High Youngs Modulus, Kevlar 149 & 49 Grade, Low Compressive Strength

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