Development of soft composite materials with improved impact resistance using Kevlar fabric and nano-silica based shear thickening fluid

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 295-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Majumdar ◽  
Bhupendra Singh Butola ◽  
Ankita Srivastava
Author(s):  
Qianyun He ◽  
Saisai Cao ◽  
Yunpeng Wang ◽  
Shouhu Xuan ◽  
Pengfei Wang ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (78) ◽  
pp. 49787-49794 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Talreja ◽  
I. Chauhan ◽  
A. Ghosh ◽  
A. Majumdar ◽  
B. S. Butola

Kevlar fabrics treated with MTMS modified silica based STF showed better impact energy absorption as compared to APTES modified and control silica based STF treated fabrics, attributed to changes in interactions between fabrics and silica particles.


2020 ◽  
pp. 152808372092701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanli Xu ◽  
Biao Yan ◽  
Dongmei Hu ◽  
Pibo Ma

This paper reports the preparation of auxetic warp-knitted spacer fabric impregnated with shear thickening fluid and studied its impact behavior under low-velocity impact loading. The shear thickening fluids have been prepared by mechanically dispersing 12 nm silica particles with weight fraction of 10, 15, 20, and 25% in various carriers (PEG200, PEG400, and PEG600). Rheological results indicate that shear thickening fluid experiences shear thickening transition at a specific shear rate. The critical shear rate reduces, and initial viscosity and maximum viscosity increase with the increase of silica weight fraction. The higher molecular weight of polyethylene glycols can lead to lower critical shear rate. The impact process of composite under impact loading can be divided into three stages. The warp-knitted spacer fabric with different negative Poisson’s ratio has a significant effect on the impact behavior. The warp-knitted spacer fabric with better auxetic performance endows composite better impact resistance, the specific performance is the deformation depth, and energy absorption and peak load increase with the increase of auxetic effect of fabric. The silica weight fraction of shear thickening fluid can increase the energy absorption of composite due to the shear thickening transition of shear thickening fluid. Shear thickening fluid has a synergistic effect with the auxetic warp-knitted spacer fabric on impact resistance of composite. The various carriers have no obvious influence on the overall energy absorption and impact load of composites.


2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
pp. 2007-2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Lomakin ◽  
P. A. Mossakovsky ◽  
A. M. Bragov ◽  
A. K. Lomunov ◽  
A. Yu. Konstantinov ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Majumdar ◽  
Bhupendra S. Butola ◽  
Ankita Srivastava ◽  
Debarati Bhattacharjee ◽  
Ipsita Biswas ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (26) ◽  
pp. 1750235
Author(s):  
N. Kordani ◽  
M. Alizadeh ◽  
F. Lohrasby ◽  
R. Khajavi ◽  
H. R. Baharvandi ◽  
...  

In this study, the mechanical properties of composites will be examined which were made from Kenaf and hybrid fabric with a simple structure that was coated with epoxy resin and nano silica particles. This fabric cotton has a different situation in terms of yarn score and the type of fiber that is used in textiles. Nano silica particles of 200 nm, polyethylene glycol with 200 molecular weights and ethanol with mechanical weight molecular with ratio of 6:1 will be mixed. Suspension of 60% was chosen according to the silica particles. The D6264 standard test for concentrated force was carried out through the cone edge to determine the strength of each of the samples. Increasing of resistance against penetration in the Kenaf samples from the raw until impregnated with the shear thickening fluid is less than the hybrid samples. Slippage of the fibers with the change of round edge indenter to cone edge indenter has changed. Penetration by cone edge to the cloth is done with lower force and it shows the effect of slippage of fibers on the resistance of the penetration. Samples impregnated with the shear thickening fluid in comparison with epoxy resin have lower resistance. Slippage of natural fibers in comparison with synthetic fibers is lower and on the other hand the average of friction between fibers in the natural fibers is more than synthetic fibers.


This research aims to participate in producing body shield that can overcome pervious drawbacks using behaviour of shear thickening fluid. Initially, the rheological behaviour of silica-polyethylene glycol shear thickening fluid is examined at different concentrations. Then, ballistic fabric samples are impregnated into silica-polyethylene glycol shear thickening fluid at various concentrations of silica and tested using gas gun simulating real ballistic threat. After that, the impact of rubbery hot water pack filled with around 66.67 wt% starch in water is tested using gas gun. Results showed as the concentration of silica increases, the indentation depth in the impregnated fabric decreases which may result in improving performance of ballistic fabric to 12.5 % in case of using 60 wt% silica, 7.35 % in case of using 30 wt% silica and 3.31 % in case of using 7.5 wt% silica with respect to plain sample. As it showed that no indentation depth is formed in modelling clay when rubbery hot water pack filled with around 66.67 wt% starch in water is tested using gas gun causing improvement percentage to be 100% compared to plain sample of Twaron (CT 714).


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