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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"fiber laminates"”.
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Evaluation of carbon fiber laminates via the use of pulse-echo ultrasound to quantify ply-stack orientation and manufacturing defects.
The use of carbon fiber composites have become more prevalent. Laminated composites provide advantages over traditional materials as the final properties of the part can be tuned. These materials also provide new challenges relating to testing and validation. Traditional testing methods are …
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Finite Element Modeling of Delamination Damage in Carbon Fiber Laminates Subject to Low-Velocity Impact and Comparison with Experimental Impact Tests Using Nondestructive Vibrothermography Evaluation
<p>Carbon fiber reinforced composites are utilized in many design applications where high strength, low weight, and/or high stiffness are required. While composite materials can provide high strength and stiffness-to-weight ratios, they are also more complicated to analyze due to their …
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Analysis of Tow-Placed, Variable-Stiffness Laminates
… to create laminae that have spatially varying fiber orientation with a tow placement machine. A laminate which is composed of such plies will have stiffness properties which vary as a function of position. Previous work had modelled such variable-stiffness laminae by taking a reference fiber …
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Advanced automated detection of foreign object debris (FOD) in woven and uni-directional composite laminates.
Carbon fiber laminates are popular in the manufacturing industry for their advantageous characteristics, including good vibration damping, high strength-to-weight ratio, toughness, high dimensional stability, low coefficient of thermal expansion, etc. To get optimal results from these properties, …
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Fabrication of reliable, self-biased and nonlinear magnetoelectric composites and their applications
… ME coefficient have been found in Metglas/piezo-fiber laminate composites, this study was designed to investigate and enhance the magnetoelectric (ME) effect in Metglas/piezo-fiber laminate composites, as well as develop their potential for magnetic sensor applications. To initiate this …
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Investigation of Machinability and Dust Emissions in Edge Trimming of Laminated Carbon Fiber Composites
The use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) systems for product structures has been steadily increasing because of superior material properties, including high strength, low weight, and corrosion resistance. CFRP parts may be molded to near net-shape geometry; however, machining operations …
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Damage in Notched Composites
… study conducted on quasi-isotropic carbon fiber laminates containing a center hole (notch) subjected to constant amplitude tension-tension fatigue loading in order to investigate the effect of fatigue damage development on the residual properties. Quasi-static tests were initially performed …
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An Experimental Investigation of GLARE and Restructured Fiber Metal Laminates
<p>Fiber Metal Laminates (FMLs) are a group of materials fabricated by bonding glass/epoxy layers within metal layers. This class of materials can provide good mechanical properties, as well as weight savings. An FML known as Glass Laminate Aluminum Reinforced Epoxy (GLARE) was studied. An …
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Investigation into the Effects of Wire Mesh on Tensile and Impact Properties of Fiber Metal Laminates
… into the tensile and impact behavior of Fiber Metal Laminates by combining 5052 aluminum mesh or2024-T3 aluminum sheets,2.47 N (8.9 oz) or 6.67 N (24 az) ShieldStand<sup>®</sup> S fiberglass, and Hysol EA 9313 epoxy. Testing was performed under the guidelines of ASTM D3039-00 utilizing an …
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Development of multifunctional polymer composites with self-healing capability
… the manufacture of both short and long-carbon fiber composites. This PhD Thesis not only focuses on the production of thermoplastic self-healing composites but also investigates thermosetting intrinsic self-healing composites. Two distinct systems are examined, and in both cases, thermoplastic …