Abstract

This paper investigates the evolution of the process-induced strain/stress field in plain woven composite antenna reflectors by fusing the numerical simulation and the experimental data. In the numerical simulation, a new multiscale curing process model of plain woven composite reflectors is proposed for process-induced strain/stress prediction. Specifically, representative volume elements at three scales are established and solved to capture the effective properties of plain woven composites. Further, a novel interface layer with cure-dependent parameters is used to emulate the tool-part interaction. In the experiment, the fiber Bragg grating sensor network is embedded into the composite reflector to measure the process-induced strains. Some of the measurements are fused into the curing process model by the optimization-based fusion method. The fused model was used to predict the full-field strain and stress, and the results indicate that areas with larger curvatures experience greater strain and stress due to the interaction between the tool and the part.

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