TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental study of dynamic behavior of Kevlar 49 single yarn
AU - Zhu, Deju
AU - Mobasher, Barzin
AU - Rajan, Subramaniam
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Aramid and other high strength fibers and fabrics have been studied extensively due to their application in a wide range of products such as bullet-proof vests, confinement chambers for jet engines, cut-resistant gloves et al. These applications have created a demand for numerical modeling of the fabrics and more in depth information about the behavior of fibrous materials and yarns. Manufacturers of yams usually provide quasi-static tensile strength for the single fiber form of the material. However, this information cannot be scaled up directly for a yarn consisting of many fibers. Also, the strain rate at which this information is obtained is not in the same order of magnitude as the strain rates observed in ballistic applications. In this study, Kevlar 49® single yarn was tested in tension within a strain rate range of 20 to 100 s-1 using a high speed servo-hydraulic testing system. The failure behavior of test specimen was recorded by a high speed digital camera. Results were used to investigate the strain rate effect on the dynamic material properties in terms of Young's modulus, tensile strength, maximum strain and toughness. The dependence of dynamic material properties on the strain rate was discussed.
AB - Aramid and other high strength fibers and fabrics have been studied extensively due to their application in a wide range of products such as bullet-proof vests, confinement chambers for jet engines, cut-resistant gloves et al. These applications have created a demand for numerical modeling of the fabrics and more in depth information about the behavior of fibrous materials and yarns. Manufacturers of yams usually provide quasi-static tensile strength for the single fiber form of the material. However, this information cannot be scaled up directly for a yarn consisting of many fibers. Also, the strain rate at which this information is obtained is not in the same order of magnitude as the strain rates observed in ballistic applications. In this study, Kevlar 49® single yarn was tested in tension within a strain rate range of 20 to 100 s-1 using a high speed servo-hydraulic testing system. The failure behavior of test specimen was recorded by a high speed digital camera. Results were used to investigate the strain rate effect on the dynamic material properties in terms of Young's modulus, tensile strength, maximum strain and toughness. The dependence of dynamic material properties on the strain rate was discussed.
KW - Dynamic material properties
KW - Kevlar 49
KW - Single yarn
KW - Strain rate
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049417977
SN - 9781617386909
T3 - Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2010
SP - 542
EP - 547
BT - Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2010
T2 - SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2010
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 10 June 2010
ER -