Strength and Impact Damage Characteristics of Al7075/CFRP Sandwich Panel

2004 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 295-300
Author(s):  
Han Ki Yoon ◽  
Jae Hyup Lee ◽  
Yi Hyun Park ◽  
J.S. Park

Carbon fiber reinforced aluminum layer laminate (CARALL), which were consisted of various numbers of CFRP prepregs, adhesive films and aluminum sheets, were fabricated by an autoclave. Impact damage behaviors of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and CARALL were investigated. The impact damage resistance of CARALL was significantly higher than that of CFRP. Compression after impact (CAI) tests was conducted to investigate the effect of impact damage on the compression strength of CARALL and CFRP specimens. The CAI strength of CFRP and CARALL decreased with increase of impact energy. However, CAI strength of CARALL is higher than that of CFRP, which can be attributed to the excellent impact damage absorbability of aluminum sheet in CARALL.

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 696-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanjheel H Mahdi ◽  
Md Ekramul Islam ◽  
Mahesh V Hosur ◽  
Shaik Jeelani

Addition of nanoparticles in polymeric composites for use in fabrication and characterization of fiber-reinforced plastic composites has recently shown a lot of promise. Nanoparticles typically used in most studies include multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and nanoclay. In the current research, in addition to including nanoclay and MWCNTs individually, we have also studied the effect of hybrid of the two in enhancing the impact performance of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites. We have fabricated CFRP composites with 0.3 wt.% of MWCNTs, 2 wt.% of nanoclay and hybrid of MWCNTs and nanoclay at 0.1 wt.% and 2 wt.%, respectively. Control samples were also fabricated with no nanoparticles. Composite laminates were subjected to impact loading at 30, 40 and 50 J energy levels. Energy, load, displacement and velocity responses of samples were obtained. Damage area of control and all modified samples were investigated using digital thermography technique and compared. MWCNT and nanoclay enhanced the impact properties and reduced the damaged area of composite samples slightly. However, significant improvement was noticed for the hybrid nanoparticle-reinforced composite samples.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 576
Author(s):  
Liang Luo ◽  
Jie Lai ◽  
Jun Shi ◽  
Guorui Sun ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
...  

This paper investigates the working performance of reinforcement concrete (RC) beams strengthened by Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) with different anchoring under bending moment, based on the structural stressing state theory. The measured strain values of concrete and Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) sheet are modeled as generalized strain energy density (GSED), to characterize the RC beams’ stressing state. Then the Mann–Kendall (M–K) criterion is applied to distinguish the characteristic loads of structural stressing state from the curve, updating the definition of structural failure load. In addition, for tested specimens with middle anchorage and end anchorage, the torsion applied on the anchoring device and the deformation width of anchoring device are respectively set parameters to analyze their effects on the reinforcement performance of CFRP sheet through comparing the strain distribution pattern of CFRP. Finally, in order to further explore the strain distribution of the cross-section and analyze the stressing-state characteristics of the RC beam, the numerical shape function (NSF) method is proposed to reasonably expand the limited strain data. The research results provide a new angle of view to conduct structural analysis and a reference to the improvement of reinforcement effect of CFRP.


2021 ◽  
pp. 073168442098359
Author(s):  
Luyao Xu ◽  
Jiuru Lu ◽  
Kangmei Li ◽  
Jun Hu

In this article, a micro-heterogeneous material simulation model with carbon fiber and resin phase about laser ablation on carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is established by Ansys. The ablation process of CFRP by nanosecond ultraviolet laser is simulated, and the mechanism of pulse energy and spot spacing on the heat-affected zone (HAZ) is studied, then the process parameters are optimized with the goal of HAZ size and processing efficiency, and finally the validity of the model is verified by experiments. It is found that the residual gradient and the width of the radial HAZ increase with the increase of the spot spacing, and the width of the axial HAZ decreases slightly with the increase of the spot spacing, which indicates the existence of the optimal spot spacing. Second, the ablation depth increases with the increase of the pulse energy, and the carbon fiber retains a relatively complete degree of exposure when the pulse energy is low, which has a certain guiding significance for the cleaning and bonding of CFRP.


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