Analysis and Characterization of Tensile Property of the Composite Specimen using ANSYS

The objective of the this research paper is to predict the deformation length of glass/epoxy composite laminates using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and compare with the Universal Testing Machine (UTM) deformation results through the tensile load. The laminate was made by six layered glass fiber (in woven mat form) with epoxy as the binding medium by hand lay-up technique, cured at room temperature at the pressure of 30 kg/cm. Tensile specimens with ASTM D3039 standarddimensions were cut from the laminate. These specimens were subjected to uni-axial tension under the 10 ton capacity UTM. The specimen’s FEA models were created using ANSYS 12 and the deformation length data were obtained. The actual deformation results were compared with the predicted values obtained from the FEA. The results were ensures that the FEA results has well agreed with the original deformation length with in the acceptable error margin.