Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 75-84Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.01.019
Keywords
Discontinuous-ply composites; Delamination; Damage mechanics; Mechanical testing
Funding
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Programme Grant [EP/I02946X/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I02946X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I02946X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A new, partially discontinuous architecture is proposed to improve the mechanical performance of pseudo-ductile, unidirectional CUD) interlayer carbon/glass hybrid composites. The concept was successfully demonstrated in different laminates with high strength and high modulus carbon and S-glass epoxy UD prepregs. The novel hybrid architecture provided pseudo-ductile tensile stress strain responses with a linear initial part followed by a wide plateau and a second linear part, all connected by smooth transitions. The best hybrid configuration showed 60% improvement in modulus compared to pure glass, 860 MPa plateau stress and 2% pseudo-ductile strain. The initial modulus, the plateau stress and the overall tensile stress strain response of each specimen configuration were predicted accurately. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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