Numerical Simulation of Thermoplastic Composite Material by ANSYS

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This paper proposes a material model of AS4/PEEK, a typical thermoplastic composite material, for the general purpose finite element code—ANSYS, which can be used to predict the mechanical behavior of AS4/PEEK composite structures. The computational result using this model has a good agreement with the test result. This investigation can lay the foundation for the numerical simulation of thermoplastic composite structures.

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