Exploring mechanical property balance in tufted carbon fabric/epoxy composites.
| dc.contributor.author | Dell'Anno, Giuseppe | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Cartié, Denis D. R. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Partridge, Ivana K. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Rezai, Amir | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-08T09:43:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-09-08T09:43:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-11-01T00:00:00Z | - |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper details the manufacturing processes involved in the preparation of through-the-thickness reinforced composites via the ‘dry preform–tufting–liquid resin injection’ route. Samples for mechanical testing were prepared by tufting a 5 harness satin weave carbon fabric in a 3 mm × 3 mm square pitch configuration with a commercial glass or carbon tufting thread, infusing the reinforced preforms with liquid epoxy resin and curing them under moderate pressure. The glass thread reinforcement increases the compression-after-impact strength of a 3.3 mm thick carbon fabric laminate by 25%. The accompanying drop- downs in static tensile modulus and strength of the same tufted laminate are below 10%. The presence of tufts is also shown to result in a significant increase in the delamination crack growth resistance of tufted double-cantilever beam specimens and has been quantified for the case of a 6 mm thick tufted carbon non-crimped fabric (NCF)/epoxy c | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Giuseppe Dell'Anno, Denis D. Cartie, Ivana K. Partridge, Amir Rezai, Exploring mechanical property balance in tufted carbon fabric/epoxy composites, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Volume 38, Issue 11, CompTest 2006, November 2007, Pages 2366-2373. | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1359-835X | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2007.06.004 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/2630 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_UK | - |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. | en_UK |
| dc.subject | 3-Dimensional reinforcement | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Preform | en_UK |
| dc.title | Exploring mechanical property balance in tufted carbon fabric/epoxy composites. | en_UK |
| dc.type | Article | - |