Effect of salt water conditioning on novel fiber metal laminates for marine applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (8) ◽  
pp. 1542-1554 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Najafi ◽  
A Darvizeh ◽  
R Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Polymer Matrix Composites ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Fiber Metal Laminates ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Metal Laminate ◽  
Fiber Metal ◽  
Marine Applications ◽  
The Impact

One of the issues with the widespread use of polymer matrix composites in marine applications is their high susceptibility to environmental degradation, particularly hygrothermal conditions. Therefore, the present research intends to contribute to the better protection of the marine polymer matrix composites through the introduction of a newly developed fiber metal laminate for marine applications. This type of fiber metal laminate consists of a marine aluminum alloy of 5083 alternating with glass fiber reinforced epoxy composite layers. In order to evaluate the characterization of the environmental durability of this novel material, the specimens made of fiber metal laminates as well as commercial woven glass–epoxy composites were exposed to hygrothermal aging and hygrothermal cycling in boiling salt water. Then, to study the structural degradation caused by exposure to salt water, the mechanical properties of fiber metal laminate and woven glass–epoxy specimens under three-point bending and impact loading were evaluated. Results show that exposure to the saline environment generally decreased the flexural strength of woven glass–epoxy and fiber metal laminate specimens, whereas a smaller deterioration in flexural stiffness of both laminate types was found. Moreover, it was observed that the hygrothermal conditioning in salt water did not affect significantly the impact properties of both the fiber metal laminate and woven glass–epoxy specimens as compared to the flexural properties.

The High Velocity Impact Response of Novel Fiber Metal Laminates

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley J. Cantwell ◽  
Graham Wade ◽  
J. Fernando Guillen ◽  
German Reyes-Villanueva ◽  
Norman Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Impact Resistance ◽  
High Velocity Impact ◽  
Fiber Metal Laminates ◽  
Velocity Impact ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Fiber Metal ◽  
Energy Absorbing ◽  
Dynamic Loading Conditions ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The impact resistance of a range of novel fiber metal laminates based on polypropylene, polyamide and polyetherimide matrices has been investigated. Initial attention focused on optimizing the interface between the composite and aluminum alloy constituents. Here, it was shown that composite-metal adhesion was excellent in all systems examined. In addition, tests at crosshead displacement rates up to 3 m/s indicated that the interfacial fracture energies remained high under dynamic loading conditions. High velocity impact tests on a series of 3/2 laminates (3 layers of aluminum/2 layers of composite) highlighted the outstanding impact resistance of a number of these systems. The glass fiber reinforced polypropylene system offered a particularly high impact resistance exhibiting a perforation energy of approximately 160 Joules. Here, failure mechanisms such as extensive plastic drawing in the aluminum layers and fiber fracture in the composite plies were found to contribute to the excellent energy-absorbing characteristics of these systems.

The Effects of a Compatibilizer for Improving Mechanical Properties on Polymer Matrix Composites

2021 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Prathumrat Nuyang ◽  
Atiwat Wiriya-Amornchai ◽  
Watthanaphon Cheewawuttipong
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Impact Strength ◽  
Young’S Modulus ◽  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Polymer Matrix Composites ◽  
Fine Powder ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Elongation At Break ◽  
The Impact

The effect of compatibilizer agent was studied when adding Aluminum fine powder (Al) to reinforce in Polypropylene (PP) by compared between polymer matrix composites (PMCs) and PMCs added Polypropylene graft maleic anhydride (PP-g-MAH).The average particle size of the aluminum fine powder was around 75 μm filled in polypropylene with different proportions of 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10wt%. PMCs were prepared using the internal mixer. The results found that when the amount of aluminum fine powder increased, the mechanical properties had changed, i.e., tensile strength, and Young’s Modulus increased, while the impact strength and elongation at break decreased. But, when adding compatibilizer 1wt% it was found that the trend of tensile strength, and Young’s Modulus increased that compared with non-compatibilizer, but the impact strength and elongation at break decreased. The part of the morphology of PMCs with non-compatibilizer was found that the particle of aluminum fine powder dispersed in the matrix phase, but there were many microvoids between filler and matrix. But, PMCs with compatibilizer caused the microvoids between filler and matrix to be reduced.

Study on the Grinding Mechanism of Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Inoue ◽  
I. Kawaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Test Specimen ◽  
Polymer Matrix Composites ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Reinforced Plastics ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Grinding Mechanism ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Plastics ◽  
Push Down

In order to clarify the grinding mechanism of polymer matrix composites, special test specimens were provided. The test specimen is such one that glass yarns are unidirectionally embedded at even interval on the middle plane of thick of a polymer matrix plate. The end face perpendicular to the plane on which glass yarns are lined up is ground in the direction at various angle from the direction of glass yarn. The aspects of the cut end of the glass yarn near the ground surface are observed microscopically, and relations between the angle of the direction of yarn and the topography of the ground surface are investigated. Following results are obtained. (1) The microscopically observed aspects of failure of the end of yarns near the ground surfaces are classified into two modes by the direction of yarn measured counterclockwise from the direction of grinding. In the range from 0 rad. to π/3 rad. of the angle, the failure of the end of yarn is comparatively deep, and spreads over the whole section of the yarn. In the range from π/2 rad. to π rad. of the angle, the failure of the end of the yarn is comparatively shallow, and random in the depth and the spread. (2) The topography is also classified into two types by the above angle. In the range from 0 rad. to π/3 rad. of the angle, the end of yarn forms a hollow pit, and in the range from π/2 rad. to π rad., the end of yarn forms a swollen proturberance. (3) The above facts are well understood by considering the digging up action of the grinding grain in the range from 0 rad. to π/3 rad., and the push down action of the grain in the range from π/2 rad. to π rad. in the grinding process.

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