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Full-stress Range Stiffness Characteristics and a New Constitutive Model for Tensile Behaviors of Coated Fabrics under Plane Stresses

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The paper investigates the mechanical properties of coated polyester fabrics in biaxial monotonic tensile tests. The nonlinear behaviors of the constitutive parameters within the full-stress range were in detail analyzed, and a new constitutive model based on the specific coupling relationships between the uniaxial and biaxial flexibilities was proposed to describe the complex tensile behaviors of coated fabrics under plane stresses. Finally, the accuracy of the nonlinear model in numerical simulations was verified, and special attention was devoted to the finite element (FE) implementation of the model as an ABAQUS user material (UMAT) subroutine. It was found that the constitutive parameters of the material varied noticeably with the stress level and ratio. The stiffnesses in the larger-stress direction are nearly stress-dominated, and the stress ratios exert a more significant effect on Poisson’s ratios than that on stiffnesses in the lower-stress direction. The proposed constitutive model, considering the material nonlinearities, is validated by the good correlations between the numerical and experimental results. Additionally, the FE simulation results using the UMAT are consistent with the experiments which reveals that the constitutive model proposed and the results obtained in this work are reliable.

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Acknowledgements

Some of the tested fabric materials were supplied by Seaman Corporation Shanghai Representative Office. Some of the tests were conducted in School of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The authors acknowledge with thanks all these help and other unmentioned ones.

Funding

This work was supported by the Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20191290), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 30920021143), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51608270, 51708345), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No.2016M601816 & No.2017T100371).

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Jianwen Chen, Feng Luo & Jin Fan

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Jianwen Chen & Mingyang Wang

  3. Space Structures Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Bing Zhao, Wujun Chen & Chengjun Gao

  4. Shanghai Key Laboratory for Digital Maintenance of Buildings and Infrastructure, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Bing Zhao & Wujun Chen

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Jianwen Chen: Conceptualization, Methodology, Reviewing and Editing, Investigation. Feng Luo: Data curation, Writing Original draft preparation, Reviewing, Software. Bing Zhao: Resources, Supervision. Jin Fan: Supervision. Wujun Chen: Resources. Mingyang Wang: Validation. Chengjun Gao: Investigation.

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Chen, J., Luo, F., Zhao, B. et al. Full-stress Range Stiffness Characteristics and a New Constitutive Model for Tensile Behaviors of Coated Fabrics under Plane Stresses. Appl Compos Mater 30, 111–134 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-022-10069-6

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