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Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Piezoelectric Nanocomposites: Design, Fabrication and Evaluation for Damage Detection and Energy Harvesting

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107587

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Piezoelectricity; End -Notched Flexure; Damage Detection

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This study developed a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer combined with a sodium potassium niobate nanoparticle-filled epoxy plate, which exhibited enhanced mechanical properties and served as a force sensor for damage detection. The voltage signals generated by this composite accurately reflected crack growth in a bending test, providing real-time crack state and fracture prediction.
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) can be used in aging infrastructures as a reinforcement because of their excellent mechanical properties, and they can also be used in the support maintenance and repair work of these structures. However, the development of CFRPs as reinforcement while achieving self-powered damage detection is still challenging. Herein, a sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticle-filled epoxy (KNN-EP) plate was fabricated and combined with advanced CFRP electrodes. The obtained composites exhibited dramatically enhanced mechanical properties. In addition, CFRP contributed to the energy harvesting output (peak-to-peak output voltage Vpp = 7.25 mV), which was over 600 % higher than that of the KNN-EP plate. Thus, this composite could work as a force sensor for damage detection. In the end-notch bending test, the voltage signals generated by CFRP/KNN-EP composite accurately corresponded to the crack growth, which could provide the real-time crack state and prediction of fracture occurrence. Therefore, this work provided a new strategy for structural enhancement and kinetic energy harvesting, which can be used to detect damage behavior in infrastructures.

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