Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5439670 | Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing | 2017 | 35 Pages |
Abstract
The fundamental frictional behaviour of carbon fibre tows relevant to composite fabric forming is explored. Tow-on-tool and tow-on-tow contact are considered. For tow-on-tool contact, an experiment is devised to simultaneously observe the true filament contact length and measure the friction force over a range of normal loads. Filament contact length is not constant, as would be given from an idealised assumption of parallel touching filaments, but increases in a characteristic manner with normal load. Friction force follows a power law variation with normal load with exponent in the range 0.7-1. Accounting for the evolving contact length in a Hertzian calculation of the real contact area produces a contact area versus load variation which differs only by a constant factor from the measured friction force curves. Thus, the results agree with a 'constant interface strength' model of friction. Tow orientation and sizing are found to have a significant effect on friction by altering the real contact area.
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Authors
Daniel M. Mulvihill, Olga Smerdova, Michael P.F. Sutcliffe,