Effect of Thermal Cycling on the Tensile Behavior of CF/AL Fiber Metal Laminates

Abstract

The objective of this research work was to estimate the effect of thermal cycling on the tensile behavior of CARALL composites. Fiber metal laminates (FMLs), based on 2D woven carbon fabric and 2024-T3 Alclad aluminum alloy sheet were manufactured by pressure molding technique followed by hand layup method. Before fabrication, aluminum sheets were anodized with phosphoric acid to produce a micro porous alumina layer on surface. This microporous layer is beneficial to produce a strong bond between the metal and fiber surfaces in FMLs. The effect of thermal cycling (-65 to +70ºC) on the tensile behavior of Cf/Al based FML was studied. Tensile strength was increased after 10 thermal cycles, but it was decreased slightly to some extent after 30 and 50 thermal cycles. Tensile modulus also show similar behavior as that of tensile strength.

Modeling and experimental study on the mechanical behavior of glass/basalt fiber metal laminates after thermal cycling

“…The effect of stacking sequence and fibers orientation is investigated on mechanical behaviors of the FMLs such as impact (Asaee and Taheri, 2016;Yaghoubi and Liaw, 2013;, tensile (Chandrasekar et al, 2019;Zareei et al, 2019), and flexural behavior (Azghan and Eslami-Farsani, 2018;Chandrasekar et al, 2019;Sharma et al, 2017). Also, several studies have reported the thermal cycling effects on mechanical properties of the FMLs (da Costa et al, 2012;Khalili et al, 2017;Noor et al, 2017). However, there are limited cases, studying the thermal cycling influence on different stacking sequences of the FMLs.…”

“…They observed that the thermal shock cycles did not result in significant micro-structural changes in the FML. Farhan Noor et al (2017) carried out experimental research regarding the effect of thermal cycling on the tensile properties of aluminum-epoxy/carbon fibers. They observed that the tensile strength was increased after 10 thermal cycles.…”

Influence of moderately warm and extremely cold climate on properties of basalt plastic armature

“…The basalt plastic armature of periodic profile (BPA) is used in construction of industrial structures, electric power facilities, in road construction, in light arched building structures, to which demands for climatic and corrosion resistance are made. Advantages of polymeric materials reinforced with basalt fibers are discussed in a number of works [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] according to mechanical parameters, cost, resistance to aggressive environments, and biological resistance.…”

“…A similar comparison was made in [5, 6, 7] and it is shown that the ultimate tensile strength, ultimate bending strength, ultimate shear strength, and moduli of elasticity in tension, bending and shear are not inferior in their durability to the glass-reinforced plastics. In [8, 9, 10], resistance of basalt plastics to the action of low, high temperatures and thermal cycles was studied and stability of these materials to the indicated effects was shown. In [11, 12], analogous conclusions about the high stability of BPA against the action of aggressive media were obtained after evaluating the effect of water, salt and alkaline solutions at normal and increased temperatures on the mechanical properties of rods with diameters of 11–12 mm.…”

“…An urgent problem of use of BPA in construction is confirmation and justification of retention of properties at a high level during long-term operation in a variety of climatic conditions. However, in all the works listed [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16], there is no information about a change of properties of BPA for construction purposes under the action of natural climatic conditions of different zones. In [17], the strength of basalt, carbon and glass fibers was studied in accelerated tests simulating the natural weather conditions, but conclusions obtained were not verified by direct climatic tests.…”