Journal
FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES AND STRUCTURES
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2631-6331/ac376e
Keywords
woven E-glass fibre; jute fibre; epoxy resin; fracture toughness; delamination
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The study fabricated laminated composites with woven E-glass and jute fibers, investigating the interlaminar fracture toughness at different curing temperatures. The results showed that the curing temperature had varying effects on the fracture toughness of different types of laminated composites.
Composites are being used in the place of metals in many industries as they have a lower density and are cheaper than metals. In aerospace industries there is requirement for light weight together with strength, and reinforced fibre composites are superior in some critical properties compared with metals. In this study, laminated composites were fabricated with woven E-glass and jute fibres in an epoxy matrix by a hand layup method. The samples were prepared as per the relevant the America Society for Testing ad Materials (ASTM) standard and tested for mode II interlaminar fracture toughness to investigate delamination resistance. Mode II interlaminar fracture toughness was evaluated by an end-notched flexure test using three-point bending. The fracture toughness G (IIC) was calculated for a curing temperature range from 40 degrees C to 70 degrees C at intervals of 5 degrees C for different sets of laminated composites. The investigations revealed that when the curing temperature of laminated composites was increased from 40 degrees C to 70 degrees C, the interlaminar fracture toughness G (IIC) was increased in neat woven E-glass laminated composites, decreased in neat jute laminated composites, significantly increased in laminated composites with woven E-glass fibres in compression and jute fibres in tension and slightly increased when woven E-glass fibres were kept in tension and jute fibres in compression.
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