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Wrinkle characterisation from Ultrasonic Scans of Composites
Año:2016

Áreas de investigación
  • Materiales aéreos,
  • Estructuras ligeras

Datos
Descripción
Wrinkles (out-of-plane waviness) are, unfortunately, a common phenomenon during composite manufacture and have a significant influence on the mechanical performance. While the aviation industry tries to reduce the thickness of composites for weight reasons, more plies are added to the design in order to mitigate the risk of undetected wrinkles and ensure robust mechanical properties of structures. The aim of this work is to detect and characterise out of plane wrinkles in complex glass-carbon structures using ultrasonic non-destructive tests. The parts to be inspected are made of epoxy resin reinforced with unidirectional carbon fibre and woven glass fibre. In order to determine the ideal probe frequency and bandwidth with which the inspections must be made, the resonant frequency of the plies was determined using a MATLAB-based analytical model. The parts were then inspected using full-matrix capture (FMC) and the total focusing method (TFM) as well as a commercial phased-array instrument providing data that can be inverted to give out-of-plane ply direction. Finally, the amplitude of the wrinkle was measured visually on the samples and compared with the ultrasonic measurements to determine the accuracy of the proposed method.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
BiNDT 2016
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Nottingham UK
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
12/09/2016
Fecha fin congreso
14/09/2016
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Participantes
  • Autor: Beatriz Maria Larrañaga Valsero UPM
  • Autor: Robert A. Smith University of Bristol
  • Autor: Rostand B. Tayong University of Bristol
  • Autor: Antonio Fernandez Lopez UPM
  • Autor: Alfredo Güemes UPM

Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad "Ignacio da Riva"
  • Departamento: Materiales y Producción Aeroespacial