Post-impact mechanical characterisation of E-glass/basalt woven fabric interply hybrid laminates

Fibre hybridisation in polymer composites: A review

“…Their results showed that Charpy impact energy decreased when moving the LE fibres to the outside, which confirms the results on carbon/glass hybrids from the previous paragraph. De Rosa et al [108] confirmed that putting the stronger basalt fibres on the outside improved the postflexural strength in basalt/glass hybrids. It is, however, difficult to transfer the conclusions from one hybrid to the other, as there is currently no theoretical framework available to assess the importance of the various material parameters.…”

“…De Rosa et al [108] also demonstrated that a well dispersed glass/basalt hybrid possessed a higher post-impact flexural strength, which was mainly attributed to the higher flexural strength prior to the impact event. De Rosa et al, however, also found a disadvantage of well dispersed hybrids: acoustic emission detected a more extensive and complex damage development during post-impact flexural tests.…”

Impact and post-impact damage characterisation of hybrid composite laminates based on basalt fibres in combination with flax, hemp and glass fibres manufactured by vacuum infusion

“…In particular, continuous basalt fibre has a not very different content in silica and alumina from glass fibres and also a comparable, if not superior, tensile strength [5]. It was also noted that basalt fibre reinforced laminates and intercalated basalt-glass hybrid laminates exhibited better impact energy absorption capability when compared to glass fibre reinforced laminates and glass/basalt sandwich hybrid laminates with glass fibres serving as reinforcement of the core and basalt fibre as reinforcement of the skin [6].…”

Hybridization effects on charpy impact behavior of basalt/aramid fiber reinforced hybrid composite laminates

“…Hence, the use of basalt fibers for the fabrication of composite materials and the determination of their mechanical properties have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The tensile, compression, flexural, impact, creep, abrasive wear, fracture, and interlaminar shear strength properties of basalt fiber reinforced composites have been explored in a number of researches , and there are several numbers of researches related with the incorporation of basalt fibers with the fibers of other reinforcement materials, such as glass , carbon , nylon , aramid , hemp , jute , glass/flax , glass/hemp , flax/hemp . Compared to those of neat glass, carbon, nylon, jute, hemp and aramid fiber composites, improvements in impact strength and energy absorption were reported for the basalt/glass , basalt/carbon , basalt/nylon , basalt/jute , basalt/hemp , and basalt/aramid hybrid composites, respectively.…”