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ADVANCED COMPOSITES LETTERS
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/2633366X20967935
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damage tolerance; impact; residual strength; natural fibre; SMC
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Natural fibre composites are of interest for a wide range of semi-structural applications in the building, construction and automotive sector. For a number of these applications, the evaluation of performance degradation after impact is of some relevance. The present work focused on the influence of fibre volume fraction and fibre surface treatment on the residual load-bearing capability of hemp fibre-reinforced sheet moulding compound (H-SMC) after non-penetrating impacts. Post-impact flexural strength and stiffness of H-SMC decreased linearly with increasing impact energy. At higher impact energy levels, the residual flexural strength of H-SMC improved with increasing fibre volume fraction. However, for the same amount of absorbed energy, the residual strength or damage tolerance capability of glass fibre-reinforced sheet moulding compound was about twice that of H-SMC. Composites based on surface treated hemp fibres showed a slight improvement in residual flexural strength, particularly for systems based on hemp fibres treated with a combined alkaline and silane surface treatment. Surface treated systems showed improved levels of adhesion and increased levels of energy absorption through potential mechanisms such as debonding, pull-out or fibre fibrillation.
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