Structural Mechanics for Real Geometry of Basalt Woven Composites

J. Salacova[1]
[1]Technical university of Liberec, Department of Material Engineering, Liberec, Czech Republic
Published in 2013

Woven composites with basalt reinforcement plain 1x1 are examined to define structural mechanics. Woven composites were created by the prepreg technology, 8 layers of plain-weave basalt fabrics were saturated by the precursor, polysiloxane matrix Lukosil®, and joint pressed during temperatures of 200°C and 600°C. The yarns consist of 8000 fibres assembled without twisting. Voids complete entire structure. Elementary woven cell was defined from binary images using flim2curve and contour functions of COMSOL Multiphysics®. This is time consuming process, because it is necessary to define points and subdomain. Reorganization of the yarns during composite manufacturing seems to be a very important phenomenon for mechanical behaviour.