A tensile characterization of random glass fiber/metal laminates composites

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 085349 ◽  
Author(s):  
M M Ammar ◽  
Seif M Osman ◽  
Ebtisam H Hasan ◽  
N A Azab
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes ◽  
N. J. Vignesh ◽  
Claudia Barile ◽  
P. Shenbaga Velu ◽  
Muhammad Asad Ali ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. 089270572097617
Author(s):  
B Yelamanchi ◽  
E MacDonald ◽  
NG Gonzalez-Canche ◽  
JG Carrillo ◽  
P Cortes

Fiber Metal Laminates (FML) are structures that contain a sequential arrangement of metal and composite materials, which are of great interest to the aerospace sector due to the superior mechanical performance. The traditional manufacturing process for FML involves considerable investment in manufacturing resources depending on the design complexity of the desired components. To mitigate such limitations, 3D printing enables direct digital manufacturing to create FML with customized configurations. In this work, a preliminary mechanical characterization of additively-manufacturing-enabled FML has been investigated. A series of continuous glass fiber-reinforced composites were printed with a Markforged system and placed between layers of aluminum alloy to manufacture hybrid laminate structures. The laminates were subjected to tensile, interfacial fracture toughness, and both low-velocity and high-velocity impact tests. The results showed that the FMLs appear to have a good degree of adhesion at the metal-composite interface, although a limited intralaminar performance was recorded. It was also observed that the low and high-velocity impact performance of the FMLs was improved by 9–13% relative to that of the constituent elements. The impact performance of the FML appeared to be related to the fiber fracture, out of plane perforation and interfacial delamination within the laminates. The present study can provide an initial research foundation for considering 3D printing in the production of hybrid laminates for static and dynamic applications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1056-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bienias Jaroslaw ◽  
Surowska Barbara ◽  
Jakubczak Patryk

Author(s):  
M Safari ◽  
M Salamat-Talab ◽  
A Abdollahzade ◽  
A Akhavan-Safar ◽  
LFM da Silva

The experimental assessment of the creep age forming performance of fiber metal laminates was considered in this study. To this end, different fiber metal laminates with the stacking sequence of [Al/02/Al] were manufactured using aluminum alloy 6061 sheets as skins along with E-glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene and E-glass fiber-reinforced polyamide 6 as two different cores. Next, a comprehensive investigation was conducted on the impacts of two main parameters in the creep forming process, i.e. the effect of time and temperature on the spring-back properties of deformed fiber metal laminates. Initially, using the design of experiments and based on the response surface methodology, an imposed spring-back of the creep age formed fiber metal laminates was modeled and the governing linear regression equations were derived and verified. Then, to find the best combination yielding the minimum spring-back, the process inputs (time and temperature) were optimized. The results proved that with an increase in either time or temperature, the spring-backs of the two types of creep age formed fiber metal laminates decreased due to the decrease in elastic strains and the increase of creep strains. Also, to achieve a creep age formed fiber metal laminate with minimum spring-back according to multi-objective optimization in both fiber metal laminates, the most proper values of time and temperature should be taken as 6 h and approximately 160°C, respectively.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 1489-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankush P Sharma ◽  
Sanan H Khan ◽  
Venkitanarayanan Parameswaran

The tensile behavior of fiber metal laminates consisting of layers of aluminum 2024-T3 alloy and glass fiber reinforced composites under high strain rate loading is investigated. Fiber metal laminates having four different layups, but all having the same total metal layer thickness, were fabricated using a combined hand lay-up cum vacuum bagging method. The fiber metal laminate specimens were loaded in high strain rate tension using a split Hopkinson tensile bar. The rate-dependent behavior of the glass fiber composite was also obtained as baseline data. The strain on the gage area of the specimen was measured directly using high-speed digital image correlation. Another high-speed camera was used to capture the sequence of damage by viewing the specimen edgewise. The results indicated that the strength of the fiber metal laminates increased at high strain rates primarily due to the rate-dependent behavior of the composite used. The response was also influenced by the distribution of the metallic layers in the fiber metal laminates. The failure in the case where the individual composite layers were separated by metallic layers was more progressive in nature.


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