Extension of the Deep-Hole Drilling Method for the Measurement of in-Plane Residual Stresses in Composite Laminates

Extension of the Deep-Hole Drilling Method for the Measurement of in-Plane Residual Stresses in Composite Laminates

C. Garza, R. Das, M.J. Pavier, A. Shterenlikht, D.J. Smith

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Abstract. Deep-Hole Drilling (DHD) is a residual stress measurement method generally used in isotropic materials. This study provides an evaluation into applying DHD to determine residual and fit-up stress fields in anisotropic composite materials. In this method, a reference hole with a small diameter is firstly drilled through the thickness of the component. The diameter of the hole is measured accurately and then a cylindrical core of material around the hole is trepanned from the component, relaxing the residual stresses in the core. Finally, the diameter of the reference hole is re-measured and the change in diameter used to calculate the residual stress. For anisotropic materials, the calculation of residual stresses requires the evaluation of distortion coefficients which rely on the mechanical properties of the components. In this work, Lekhnitskii’solution for the distortion of a circular hole in an anisotropic plate and finite element analysis are used to determine these coefficients. Using this technique, the in-plane residual stresses in AS4/8552 composite laminates were experimentally measured and compared to finite element predictions as well as to classical lamination theory. The obtained results indicate that, when using DHD in laminated materials, an optimal ratio between the layers’ thickness, the reference hole and trepan diameters is of significant importance since unrelaxed thermally induced residual stresses can lead to inaccurate measurements.

Keywords
Composite Laminates, Deep Hole Drilling, Finite Element Analysis, Residual Stress

Published online 12/22/2016, 6 pages
Copyright © 2016 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: C. Garza, R. Das, M.J. Pavier, A. Shterenlikht, D.J. Smith, ‘Extension of the Deep-Hole Drilling Method for the Measurement of in-Plane Residual Stresses in Composite Laminates’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp 377-382, 2017

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291173-64

The article was published as article 64 of the book Residual Stresses 2016

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