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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2011.15.1.035

The Effects of Affecting Ratios on the Strength Safety of a Composite Fuel Tank for FEV Vehicles  

Kim, Chung-Kyun (Research Center for Tribology, Mechatronics and Energy Technology, Hongik University)
Kim, Do-Hyun (Department of Automotive Engineering, Daelim University College)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.15, no.1, 2011 , pp. 35-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze affecting ratios of strength safety in carbon fiber layer thickness of a composite fuel tank for FEV vehicles. To investigate affecting ratios by FEM modeling, the equivalent von Mises stress has been computed on the aluminum liner and carbon fiber layers of composite fuel tanks in hoop and helical directions respectively. According to the FEM results, the affecting ratios of an aluminum liner on the equivalent stress are 77.5% in hoop direction, 18.11% in $70^{\circ}C$ winded helical direction and 4.39% in $12^{\circ}C$ winded helical direction. These trends on the strength safety of carbon fiber layers have been shown as those of an aluminum liner even though the layer thickness ratio of $12^{\circ}C$ inclined carbon fiber is very high of 42% compared with that of hoop layer thickness. Thus, the computed results show that the strength safety of a carbon fiber fuel tank is more influenced by the winding angle rather than the fiber thickness of carbon fiber layers.
Keywords
composite fuel tank; affecting ratio; hoop layer; helical layer; hydrogen gas; liner;
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