Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T
Volume 24, Issue -, Pages 1373-1389Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2023.03.078
Keywords
Flax; carbon fiber hybrid reinforced; polymer composite; Tensile properties; Hybrid effect; Pseudo -ductility
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Flax/carbon fiber hybrid reinforced polymer composites were prepared to improve the mechanical properties. The effects of carbon fiber volume fraction, carbon fiber monolayer thickness, and hybrid mode on the properties of hybrid composites were studied by tensile tests. The results showed that the hybrid composites achieved positive hybrid effects with a minimum repeating unit of flax fiber as skin and carbon fiber as core.
To improve the mechanical properties of flax fiber reinforced polymer composites, flax/ carbon fiber hybrid reinforced polymer composites were prepared by wet winding. The effects of carbon fiber volume fraction, carbon fiber monolayer thickness, and hybrid mode (carbon fiber dispersion) on the properties of hybrid composites were studied by tensile tests considering existing theoretical models. The results showed that the minimum repeating unit of flax fiber as skin and carbon fiber as core can yield a positive hybrid effect. In addition, a lower carbon fiber volume fraction reduced the carbon fiber monolayer thickness, and a higher degree of dispersion emphasized the positive hybrid effect of the hybrid composite. The stress-strain curves of the composite did not exhibit pseudoductility given the negligible difference in failure strain and large difference in modulus, such that the carbon fiber layer could not fracture multiple times. In an optimized hybrid composite, introducing 26.4% carbon fiber increased the composite strength by 129.3% compared with the flax fiber reinforced polymer and the composite toughness by 32% compared with the carbon fiber reinforced polymer. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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