Influence of milled glass fillers on mode-II fracture toughness of polymer composites

Kannivel, Saravanakumar; Farouk, Nibras; C, Suresh Kumar; Arumugam, V.

doi:10.1080/02670836.2022.2043029

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“…Kumar et al 29 discriminated the failure modes in laminated composites using AE amplitude, rise time, counts, energy, duration and peak frequency. Moreover, Mei et al 30 used AE energy for investigating the fracture toughness 31,32 and failure strength prediction in polymer 33 and ceramic matrix 34 composites. They concluded that the residual strength of composites was associated with fiber bundles buckling and delamination 35 .…”

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Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Stacking Sequence on Damage Resistance and Post-indentation Performance of Glass/Epoxy Laminates Under Different Loading Planes Using Acoustic Emission Monitoring

Bharathi¹,

Arumugam

Kumar

2023

Mat. Res.

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This research work focuses on the experimental investigation of indentation damage resistance and post-indented performance of different stacking sequence of glass/epoxy laminates using mechanical and acoustic responses. The laminates with stacking sequence, namely [0] 12 , [0/90] 6S , [+45/-45] 6S and [0/+45/-45/90] 3S were subjected to normal and inclined indentation with acoustic emission monitoring. Quasi-static indentation (QSI) test was conducted on the center of the laminates using a hemispherical steel indenter with 12.7 mm diameter. The residual strength of the laminates was computed by conducting flexural after indentation test. Mechanical responses such as peak force, residual dent, linear stiffness and absorbed energy were employed to assess induced damages. The results reveal that the quasi-isotropic (QIS) laminates having better indentation damage resistance under 0 o and 10 o loading planes, whereas the angle-ply (AP) laminates performed well at 20 o . Moreover, the normalised cumulative counts, energy rate, peak frequency, AE hits and sentry function were used to evaluate the damage initiation and propagation. Further, AE results show that the shear induced damage has been reduced in AP as compared with QIS laminates under 20 o indentation plane. Finally, this study concluded that the QIS and AP laminates exhibited better indentation resistance under 0 o and 10 o , and 20 o loading planes respectively.

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