On the optimal design of manufacturing-induced residual stresses in filament wound carbon fiber composite cylindrical shells reinforced with carbon nanotubes

Abstract

Process-induced residual stresses occur in composite structures composed of dissimilar materials. As these residual stresses could result in fracture, their consideration when designing composite parts is necessary. In this research, the residual stresses behavior is characterized in terms of three manufacturing features including ‘environmental’, ‘materialistic’ and ‘dimensional’ features. In experimental part, after the fabrication of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reinforced composite shells, the slitting technique is employed to measure the released strains. Then, the elements of the stiffness matrix are obtained accomplishing an extensive computational modeling in ANSYS commercial software. The obtained results of experimental and computational parts are correlated using a MATLAB programming code, and residual stresses are calculated by calibration factors. Additionally, a statistical analysis is carried out to analyze the influence of mentioned parameters in overall scale. The experimental results had a good agreement with the analytical ones. Finally, this study highlights the complexity and the multifaceted characteristic of residual stresses development in terms of mentioned parameters in CNT-reinforced carbon fiber composite shells.