Analytical and experimental investigation of the delamination during drilling of composite structures with core drill made of diamond grits: X-ray tomography analysis

Jamel Saoudi 1, 2 Redouane Zitoune 1 Suhasini Gururaja 3 Mehdi Salem 1 Salah Mezleni 2
1 ICA - Institut Clément Ader
2 Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir
3 Department of Aerospace Engineering [Bangalore]
Abstract : Among the various forms of material damage, exit-ply delamination has been identified as one of the most deleterious damage processes associated with drilling fibre-reinforced plastics. The thrust force has been cited as the primary cause for drilling-induced exit-ply delamination. Only one analytical model for the prediction of the critical thrust force responsible for delamination using core drills can be found in the literature. In this study, a realistic model to predict critical thrust force responsible for drilling-induced exit-ply delamination in a multi-directional carbon fibre-reinforced plastic laminate with core drill has been proposed. A comparison between the proposed model, literature model as well as the experimental tests conducted during punching tests is presented. The proposed model is found to correlate well with experimental punching tests. In fact, the maximum relative errors recorded between the experimental values of the critical thrust force and the measured values are around 15%. Micro-tomography experiments have also been conducted that capture the drilling-induced damage in multi-directional carbon fibre-reinforced plastics in great detail. The X-ray images highlight the difficulty in controlling the thickness of the uncut plies located under the core drill during punching tests that can be attributed to some deviations in predictions of critical thrust force. Postmortem examination of the blind holes after punching tests also confirms the presence of a net delamination near the vicinity of the nominal diameter of the core drill, which correlates well to the hypothesis of the analytical model.
Keywords : core drill X-ray tomography drilling fracture mechanic exit-ply delamination Modeling composite
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Jamel Saoudi, Redouane Zitoune, Suhasini Gururaja, Mehdi Salem, Salah Mezleni. Analytical and experimental investigation of the delamination during drilling of composite structures with core drill made of diamond grits: X-ray tomography analysis. Journal of Composite Materials, SAGE Publications, 2018, 52 (10), p.1281-1294. ⟨10.1177/0021998317724591⟩. ⟨hal-01685185⟩

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