Modelling and Analysis of a Composite Materia...

Modelling and Analysis of a Composite Material by Using Ansys Workbench

Author Name : Rekam Prakash, Lavuluri Thrinai Pavan, Ajith. E., Sandeep B N

ABSTRACT

Composite is a material consisting of two or more constituents are combined at a ratio of matrix and fiber. Composites are using in most areas especially in the engineering field, in automobile, mechanical, aviation, and marine industries. Last few years the scientist mostly focuses on the study of composite material and the design of components are made with the help of software and Analytical analysis because this composite material has a high strength to weight ratio. The need of today is to reduce weight and increases the strength of the material. For this, analyzing composite material by finding natural frequencies of material which will refer by few pieces of literature. In this paper with the reference of composite materials properties, a polyesterfabric was created. To attain the strength criteria, a stacking sequence of fabric was modeled in the Ansys Composite Pre-processor to form the composite wall. The Flexural stiffness, natural frequencies, bending analysis, buckling analysis, and different mode deformation shapes of the Composite wall have been determined using ANSYS 2020 R2.The Analytical results help to identify the natural frequencies with deformations, deformations with the bending load in both X and Y directions, Critical buckling value with the greatest critical load multiplication factor. Results obtained from Ansys Workbench have a very good agreement with results obtained theoretically.

Keywords:  Ansys Composite Analysis, Composite Vibration Analysis, Modal Analysis, Static Structural Analysis, and Composite Ply Sequence.