Title: Validation of Laminate Resistance by Using Experimental Results or Results Calculated by Different Authors
Abstract: Leisure vessels are made of composite materials and mainly, of fibre reinforced composite materials. The glass fibre is the main material used for the construction of leisure boats since the middle of the ‘60s. The glass fibre is the most often used reinforcing material but for performing vessels the carbon or aramid fibre is used. The composite materials have various advantages, such as: light weight, corrosion resistance, impact resistance, anti-vibration capability, low costs, and easiness of the construction process, maintenance and repairs. The composite materials are used more often both in civil and military marine for the production of submarines and surface vessels. The composite materials used for the boat construction, namely the fibre reinforced plastic materials, have 2 main components: the fibres and the matrix. The fibres secure the composite material resistance and stiffness while the matrix sustains the fibres, enabling the creation of some structural elements, protects the fibres from the environment actions, transfers the stresses between fibres etc. The matrix has a low resistance and stiffness. The authors are going to compare the results obtained with MATLAB program for the laminate resistance with the results obtained by other authors, with results obtained by direct measurement over the laminate and the results obtained by applying the finite element method. It will be observed that as an essential conclusion, there is a good conformity between all these results.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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