Failure criteria Tsai-Hill criterion

If the fibres are aligned at 15° to the jc-direction, calculate what tensile value of Ox will cause failure according to (i) the Maximum Stress Criterion (ii) the Maximum Strain Criterion and (iii) the Tsai-Hill Criterion. The thickness of the composite is 1 mm. 

Solving this gives X = 169. Hence a stress of Ox = 169 MN/m would cause failure. It is more difficult with the Tsai-Hill criterion to identify the nature of the failure ie tensile, compression or shear. Also, it is generally found that for fibre angles in the regions 5°-15 and 40 -90 , the Tsai-Hill criterion predictions are very close to the other predictions. For angles between 15° and 40° the Tsai-Hill tends to predict more conservative (lower) stresses to cause failure. 

A single ply glass/epoxy composite has the properties Usted below. If the fibres are aligned at 30° to the x-direction, determine the value of in-plane stresses, a, which would cause failure according to (a) the Maximum Stress criterion (b) the Maximum Strain criterion and (c) the Tsai-Hill criterion. 

The Tsai-Hill criterion governs failure of a lamina (the strength-analysis procedure could, of course, involve another criterion). 

For in-plane failure in a lamina, the Tsai-Hill criterion was used with classical lamination theory to predict failure load. The Tsai-Hill criterion is given by... 

Since the in-plane stresses (Cn, CT22 12) ibe surface ply near the free edge are not constant, the average stresses over a distance of 2t from the free edge were used in the Tsai-Hill criterion for failure prediction. Further, since the surface plies are partially free from constraints (the lamination effect), the in-plane shear strength should be lower than that measured with [ 45]2s specimen. Thus, we took the value S = 14.4 ksi (for AS4/3501-6) reported in most literature. For T300/5208 graphite/epoxy composite we found S = 8.2 ksi was suitable. 

Accompanying the free-edge interlaminar stress analysis was the use of reduced lamina moduli to account for the lamina matrix cracking predicted by the Tsai-Hill criterion. Caution must be exercised in this reduction of elastic constants. When a certain elastic constant is reduced, in order to satisfy constraint conditions on the elastic constants, the remaining constants should also be adjusted. For example, due to transverse matrix failure, E2 was reduced to a small value (e.g. 100 psi). In order to meet the constraint condition like V23 < E2/E3, V23 should also be reduced. 

For the fiber-dominated laminate (0 = 0°) and highly matrix- dominated laminates (0 > 30°), failure initiates from the interior of the laminate and the classical Tsai-Hill criterion is accurate. 

The failure loads predicted using classical Tsai-Hill criterion are 93.4 ksi for [ 30/90]g laminate and 48 ksi for [ 45/90]s laminate. These predicted failure loads are much higher than the test data. Thus, failure in these laminates must have initiated from the free edges. 

Experimental and predicted failure stresses using Tsai-Hill criterion for different... 

From the experimental results for ic/4 laminates, we note that if delamination does not occur (e.g. [0/90/45/-45]s) then Tsai-Hill criterion can predict laminate strength. If delamination occurs before total laminate failure, then the laminate strength is lower than that predicted by Tsai-Hill criterion. 

The strength of laminates is usually predicted from a combination of laminated plate theory and a failure criterion for the individual larnina. A general treatment of composite failure criteria is beyond the scope of the present discussion. Broadly, however, composite failure criteria are of two types noninteractive, such as maximum stress or maximum strain, in which the lamina is taken to fail when a critical value of stress or strain is reached parallel or transverse to the fibers in tension, compression, or shear or interactive, such as the Tsai-Hill or Tsai-Wu (1,7) type, in which failure is taken to be when some combination of stresses occurs. Generally, the ply materials do not have the same strengths in tension and compression, so that five-ply strengths must be deterrnined ... 

Results for this criterion are plotted in Figure 2-40 along with the experimental data for E-glass-epoxy. The agreement between the Tsai-Hill failure criterion and experiment is quite good. Thus, a suitable failure criterion has apparently been found for E-glass-epoxy laminae at various orientations in biaxial stress fields. 

The Tsai-Hill failure criterion appears to be much more applicable to failure prediction for this E-glass-epoxy composite material than either the maximum stress criterion or the maximum strain failure criterion. Other less obvious advantages of the Tsai-Hill failure criterion are ... 

Rgure 2-40 Tsai-Hill Failure Criterion (After Tsai [2-21])... 

For E-glass-epoxy, the Tsai-Hill failure criterion seems the most accurate of the criteria discussed. However, the applicability of a particular failure criterion depends on whether the material being studied is ductile or brittle. Other composite materials might be better treated with the maximum stress or the maximum strain criteria or even some other criterion. 

A single failure criterion is used in all quadrants of o,-02 space instead of the segments in separate quadrants for the Tsai-Hill failure criterion because of different strengths in tension and compression. 

The terms that are linear in the stresses are useful in representing different strengths in tension and compression. The terms that are quadratic in the stresses are the more or less usual terms to represent an ellipsoid in stress space. However, the independent parameter F,2 is new and quite unlike the dependent coefficient 2H = 1/X in the Tsai-Hill failure criterion on the term involving interaction between normal stresses in the 1- and 2-directions. 

At this point, recali that all interaction between normal stresses o, and 02 iri the Tsai-Hill failure criterion is related to the strength in the 1-direction ... 

Thus, the Tsai-Wu tensor failure criterion is obviously of more general character than the Tsai-Hill or Hoffman failure criteria. Specific advantages of the Tsai-Wu failure criterion include (1) invariance under rotation or redefinition of coordinates (2) transformation via known tensor-transformation laws (so data interpretation is eased) and (3) symmetry properties similar to those of the stiffnesses and compliances. Accordingly, the mathematical operations with this tensor failure criterion are well-known and relatively straightforward. 

Find the Tsai-Hill failure criterion for pure shear loading at various angles B to the principal material directions, i.e., the shear analog of Equation (2.134). 

Note that the lamina failure criterion was not mentioned explicitly in the discussion of Figure 4-36. The entire procedure for strength analysis is independent of the actual lamina failure criterion, but the results of the procedure, the maximum loads and deformations, do depend on the specific lamina failure criterion. Also, the load-deformation behavior is piecewise linear because of the restriction to linear elastic behavior of each lamina. The laminate behavior would be piecewise nonlinear if the laminae behaved in a nonlinear elastic manner. At any rate, the overall behavior of the laminate is nonlinear if one or more laminae fail prior to gross failure of the laminate. In Section 2.9, the Tsai-Hill lamina failure criterion was determined to be the best practical representation of failure... 

The procedure of laminate strength analysis outlined in Section 4.5.2, with the Tsai-Hill lamina failure criterion will be illustrated for cross-ply laminates that have been cured at a temperature above their service or operating temperature in the manner of Tsai [4-10]. Thus, the thermal effects discussed in Section 4.5.3 must be considered as well. For cross-ply laminates, the transformations of lamina properties are trivial, so the laminate strength-analysis procedure is readily interpreted. 

The failure criterion must be applied to determine the maximum values of Nx and AT that can be sustained without failure of any layer. Actually, the failure criterion is applied to each layer separately. For the special orientation of cross-ply laminates, the Tsai-Hill failure criterion for each layer can be expressed as... 

Note that the stresses Cy are very small in comparison to the shearing stresses. Thus, the Tsai-Hill lamina failure criterion can be simplified for this lamina to... 

The earliest works of trying to model different length scales of damage in composites were probably those of Halpin [235, 236] and Hahn and Tsai [237]. In these models, they tried to deal with polymer cracking, fiber breakage, and interface debonding between the fiber and polymer matrix, and delamination between ply layers. Each of these different failure modes was represented by a length scale failure criterion formulated within a continuum. As such, this was an early form of a hierarchical multiscale method. Later, Halpin and Kardos [238] described the relations of the Halpin-Tsai equations with that of self-consistent methods and the micromechanics of Hill [29],... 

Tsai—Hill The maximum stress and maximum strain failure criteria consider each stress component individually. This is a simplification. Test results show that if more than one stress is present in a ply, they can combine to give failure earlier (or later) than the maximum stress or maximum strain failure criterion would predict. One example that shows this effect is the case of a unidirectional ply under shear on which a tensile or a compressive stress is applied parallel to the fibers. The situation is shown in Eigure 6.7. 

Tsai—Wu In a further refinement of the Tsai—Hill failure criterion, Tsai and Wu [6] proposed a criterion that accounts for the differences in magnitude of tension and compression strengths in the form ... 

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