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This document is an annual report submitted by Subhashis Sit to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for the completion of the first year of his PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Goutam Chakraborty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The report provides an introduction to multifunctional materials and fuzzy fiber reinforced composites. It discusses the work completed, including coursework with grades, and future work plans to study the mechanics and multiscale modeling of fuzzy fiber reinforced composites through both modeling and experiments.

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Anuual Report.1

This document is an annual report submitted by Subhashis Sit to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for the completion of the first year of his PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Goutam Chakraborty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The report provides an introduction to multifunctional materials and fuzzy fiber reinforced composites. It discusses the work completed, including coursework with grades, and future work plans to study the mechanics and multiscale modeling of fuzzy fiber reinforced composites through both modeling and experiments.

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Mechanics and Multiscale Modelling of fuzzy Fiber

Reinforced Polymer Composites


An annual report submitted to
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
in completion of first year for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy
by

Subhashis Sit
14ME91R08

Under the supervision of


Dr. Goutam Chakraborty

Department of Mechanical Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR


Kharagpur-721302
August 20, 2015

Contents
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1 Introduction
1.1 Multifunctional Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.2 Fuzzy Fiber Reinforced Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.3 Multiscale Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2 Work Done and Plan of Future Work


2.1 Work Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Plan of Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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References

List of Figures
1.1

Recent English Language referred journal publications related to multifunctional materials ans structures Gibson [2010] . . . . . . . . . . . . .

List of Tables
2.1

Details of course work done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 1
Introduction
From the last quarter of twentieth century composite materials have gained immense
importance in various applications where weight saving is a primary objective. So the
mechanics of composite materials is very much important to understand. Multifunctional
composite materials are in high demand in different applications such as in aerospace,
automobiles industry, railways, oil and gas transport, biomedical etc. Today along
with structural functions different non structural properties from the same structure are
wanted. Different structural properties includes mechanical properties like strength, stiffness, fracture toughness, and damping, while non-structural functions include electrical
and/or thermal conductivity, sensing and actuation, energy harvesting/storage, self healing capability, electromagnetic interference shielding, recyclability and biodegradibility.
The increasing interest in multifunctional material can be seen from the following figure
showing number of publications dealing with the mechanics of materials and structure.

Figure 1.1: Recent English Language referred journal publications related to multifunctional materials ans structures Gibson [2010]

1.1

Multifunctional Materials

Traditionally the load-bearing materials used for structural purposes and other materials having non-structural properties were distinct. But there is an increasing demand
to use the same material to have good structural and non-structural properties. The
materials which possess good mechanical, electrical and thermal properties are called
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multifunctional materials. These materials are generally composite materials. A new


type of material has fibers as reinforcements and polymer matrix as substrates with
carbon nanotubes as nanoscale reinforcements. As we know traditional fiber-reinforced
composite materials have good structural properties but poor thermal conductivity to
be used in aerospace applications as polymer matrix is not good conductivity. We can
improve its conductivity by using carbon nanotubes. Thus it will be conductive and
it would not be damaged by lightning anymore. So there is a great opportunity to do
research in multifunctional materials which are largely used in aerospace, defence, energy
and semiconductor industries.

1.2

Fuzzy Fiber Reinforced Composites

Composites are made up of individual materials referred to as constituent materials.


There are two categories of constituent materials, namely, matrix and reinforcement. At
least one portion of each type is required. The matrix material surrounds and supports
the reinforcement materials by maintaining their relative positions. A synergism produces material properties unavailable from the individual constituent materials, while
the wide variety of matrix and strengthening materials allows the designer of the product
or structure to choose an optimum combination.
Fiber-reinforced composite materials consist of fiber of high strength bonded to a
matrix with distinct interfaces between them and retain their physical and chemical
identities, yet they produce a combination of properties that cannot be achieved with
either of the constituent acting alone.
There is a lot of research is going on fuzzy fiber reinforced composites. When carbon
nanotubes are embedded radially on the reinforced fiber, it gives better out of plane mechanical properties along with good thermal and electrical conductivities. This kind of
arrangement of carbon fibers on reinforced fibers are called fuzzy fiber. The traditional
fiber reinforced composites give good mechanical properties in the longtitudinal direction.
But the out of plane properties are very poor. In order to improve the out of plane or
transverse properties of the composite, researchers have thought a lot and come to the
invention of fuzzy fiber reinforced composites.

1.3

Multiscale Modeling

Multiscale modeling is used in different fields such as in engineering, mathematics, physics,


meteorology etc. Different levels of multiscale modeling are as follows:
Level of quantum model(Electron level)
Level of molecular dynamics model(Individual atom)
Level of nanoscale model(Group of atoms)
Level of microscale model
Level of macroscale or continuum model
Level of whole structure.

These different scales are modeled to describe the system characteristics. The need
for multiscale modeling is that the macroscale model is not accurate enough and the
microscale model is not efficient enough. But if these are combined then approximately
accurate information of the structure can be obtained.
There is increasing use of multiscale hybrid composites where matrix is in macroscale,
reinforced fiber are in microscale and nano-reinforcements such as carbon fibers are in
nanoscale. In order to determine the material properties of the whole structure it is
needed to apply multiscale modeling of its constituent phases.

Chapter 2
Work Done and Plan of Future Work
2.1

Work Done

In the previous year the requisite courses have been completed with following grades.
Subject No.

Subject Name

Type

Credit

Session

Grade/Remarks

HS63002

English for Technical Writing

Compulsory Course

2014-2015-Autumn

HS51637

Society, Science and Technology

Interdisciplinary Course

2014-2015-Spring

ME60401

Applied Elasticity

Recommended Course

2014-2015-Autumn

ME60413

Continuum Mechanics

Recommended Course

2014-2015-Autumn

ME60408

Mechanics of Composite

Recommend Course

2014-2015-Spring

Table 2.1: Details of course work done

2.2

Plan of Future Work

I have appeared for the Comprehensive Examination and the results are waiting. Currently I have planned to do the literature review on mechanics and multiscale modeling
of fuzzy fiber reinforced composites. I wish to study the interlaminar and intralaminar
properties, fracture strength and damping characteristics under different loading conditions by multiscale modeling of those fuzzy fiber reinforced composites. I would also like
to do some experimental work on those to validate my results.

References
R.F. Gibson. A review of recent research on mechanics of multifunctional composite
materials and structures. Composite Structures, 92(12):27932810, 2010. doi: 10.1016/
j.compstruct.2010.05.003. URL http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=
2-s2.0-77954143679&partnerID=40&md5=620b08d5b07ed6f7d6761b7ded89e29f.
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