Fotouhi, M. , Jalalvand, M., Saeedifar, M., Xiao, B. and Wisnom, M. R. (2020) High performance quasi-isotropic thin-ply carbon/glass hybrid composites with pseudo-ductile behaviour loaded off-axis. Composite Structures, 247, 112444.
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Abstract
The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of loading angle variation on the pseudo-ductility of quasi-isotropic (QI) hybrid composite laminates. Previously, hybrids of thin-ply carbon fibres and standard glass fibres were found to have an excellent pseudo-ductile behaviour both in unidirectional (UD) and QI configurations when subjected to axial tension in the fibres’ orientations. In this work, the QI laminates, with 60° intervals, have been subjected to a quasi-static tensile load at various off-axis orientations – i.e. 5°, 10° and 20°. The QI hybrid composites were made by sandwiching a QI T300-carbon laminate between the two halves of a QI S-glass laminate. The results showed a pseudo-ductile behaviour with a linear elastic part and a desirable plateau for all the loading directions, however the pseudo-ductile strain decreases when increasing the off-axis angle. Comparing the 20° off-axis with the other cases, there was more active matrix cracking damage before fragmentation in the 20° off-axis plies and it failed earlier than the other samples. Acoustic emission (AE) results confirmed this, with more matrix cracking related AE signals in the 20° off-axis case compared to the other configurations.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Additional Information: | This work was funded under the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Programme Grant EP/I02946X/1 on High Performance Ductile Composite Technology in collaboration with Imperial College, London. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Fotouhi, Dr Mohammad |
| Authors: | Fotouhi, M., Jalalvand, M., Saeedifar, M., Xiao, B., and Wisnom, M. R. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Autonomous Systems and Connectivity |
| Journal Name: | Composite Structures |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0263-8223 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1879-1085 |
| Published Online: | 07 May 2020 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2020 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Composite Structures 247:112444 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence |
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