Elastic performance prediction and 3D drilling simulation of PW-CFRP

Abstract

Plain-woven carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (PW-CFRP) exhibits high damage tolerance and is widely used in the aerospace field. To address the issue that single-scale drilling simulation is difficult to reflect the practical drilling force due to the change in material elastic properties in PW-CFRP drilling simulation, this paper studies the prediction of elastic properties of PW-CFRP and multi-scale three-dimensional drilling simulation. Based on the prediction model of elastic performance parameters with periodic boundary conditions, the three-dimensional drilling simulation of PW-CFRP is carried out using the predicted material elastic performance parameters and the multi-scale finite element method, with experimental verification. The results show that the finite element method based on periodic boundary conditions can accurately predict the elastic constants of braided composites. For the woven unit cell, its boundary surface changes from plane to surface under shear load, and convex-concave warping deformation occurs. The PW-CFRP three-dimensional drilling simulation model, based on the stiffness prediction model, can accurately predict the axial force and torque during the drilling process. Under the same process parameters, the maximum relative errors between the simulation prediction and the experimental results of the drilling thrust force and torque are 14.2% and 8.5%, respectively. The multi-scale drilling simulation of PW-CFRP, from microscopic to mesoscopic to macroscopic, is realized.

Keywords

• cfrp
• periodical boundary condition
• multi-scale analyses
• elastic constant
• drilling simulation