Computational Simulation of Biaxial Loading of Polymer Composites in ANSYS

The article focuses on the computational simulation of polymer composites under biaxial loading. The goal is the quick creation of computational models based on geometry parameters that can be used for biaxial loading simulation. FEA software ANSYS is used for computational simulation. The APDL (Ansys Parametric Design Language) procedure is used to create computational models. The composites consist of an elastomer matrix, for its definition in computational models the two-parametric Mooney-Rivlin material model is used. Single-layer and two-layer models are created for the simulations. Strain–stress analyzes are performed. The results from the cyclic biaxial loading tests of composites are presented because the results are requested for the verification analysis between experiments and computational simulation. Simulation of the biaxial loading of composites are important for practice. The research results can be used to simulate tire casings of passenger cars since the tire casing consists of elastomer parts, parts with polymer cords as well as steel cords in the tire crown and carcass as the reinforcement.