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Triaxial Woven Fibre (TWF) composite (repair material) were measured <strong>an</strong>d further<br />

<strong>an</strong>alysis was carried out.<br />

1.2 Contributions of the Work<br />

In pipeline repairs, there is no research that has been carried out so far in<br />

<strong>an</strong>alysing the stress strain behaviour between the reinforced materials (i.e. steel) that<br />

contain arc-shaped defects <strong>an</strong>d reinforcing material (i.e. composite) in the elastic<br />

working region. This study provides a methodology of the <strong>integrated</strong> Structural Health<br />

Monitoring (SHM) approach using numerical <strong>an</strong>alysis (ABAQUS) <strong>an</strong>d experiments that<br />

c<strong>an</strong> provide insight into the optimisation of the composite repair thickness <strong>an</strong>d length as<br />

a function of defect geometry. Using the conventional (<strong>an</strong>alytical) method alone does<br />

not give a true picture of how well the stresses <strong>an</strong>d strains behave when the above<br />

parameters (i.e. composite repair thickness, length <strong>an</strong>d defect size) vary.<br />

Although the simulation using ABAQUS c<strong>an</strong> show better stress strain<br />

distributions in the composite repair, it is still inadequate because the composite repair<br />

is usually modelled at the macro-mech<strong>an</strong>ics level whereby the material is presumed to<br />

be homogeneous <strong>an</strong>d the effects of the constituent materials are detected only as<br />

averaged apparent properties of the composite (McGraw-Hill, 2003) <strong>an</strong>d is <strong>an</strong>isotropic.<br />

According to Car et al. (2001), <strong>an</strong>isotropic material is one which exhibits properties<br />

with different values when measured in different directions. Often, there are some<br />

assumptions <strong>an</strong>d errors involved. So no model so far c<strong>an</strong> claim to produce exact<br />

behaviours of this stress strain distribution without a proper validation from the<br />

experiment. Therefore, this study proves that these objectives c<strong>an</strong> be achieved if<br />

sensible procedures <strong>an</strong>d guidelines are properly pl<strong>an</strong>ned <strong>an</strong>d established. Additionally,<br />

this <strong>integrated</strong> approach also demonstrates the easiest way to determine the coefficient<br />

of thermal exp<strong>an</strong>sion of the <strong>an</strong>isotropic composite without applying the st<strong>an</strong>dard<br />

laboratory procedures which are more expensive <strong>an</strong>d complicated.<br />

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