High performance quasi-isotropic thin-ply carbon/glass hybrid composites with pseudo-ductile behaviour loaded off-axis

Mohamad Fotouhi, Meisam Jalalvand, Milad Saeedifar, Bill Xiao, Michael R Wisnom

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number112444
Number of pages10
JournalComposite Structures
Volume247
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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Keywords

  • Pseudo-ductility
  • Hybrid composites
  • Off-axis
  • Fragmentation
  • Acoustic emission

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