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Influence of fiber volume fraction on dynamic damage in woven glass fabric composites: An experimental study

Pages 319-334 | Published online: 02 Apr 2012
 

Abstract

Experiments have been carried out to study the damage fracture growth and the associated damage mechanisms in woven glass fiber reinforced polyester composites. The initiation and propagation history of the damage has been recorded at few microsecond intervals using a high speed Cranz-Schardin camera. The images obtained are analyzed using IDRISI, an image processing tool. Three different fiber volume fractions, 2.4, 5.3 and 33.0 percent are considered. The influence of notch orientation are studied by varying the initial notch orientation between 0° and 45°. On the basis of the studies, it is observed that irrespective of initial notch orientation, the damage propagates in a direction perpendicular to the loading direction. For low fiber volume fractions, the damage is in the form of matrix cracking and interface debonding while delamination dominates for specimens with high fiber volume fractions. The damage velocity in low fiber volume fraction specimens are found to be higher than the terminal velocity of the crack in unreinforced polyester resin. Fractographic studies are also carried out and the results are presented.

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