This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP), covering manufacturing, mechanical behavior, and resistance performance. It includes the elastic and damage behavior of unidirectional FRP, and highlights the improvements achieved by adding multiwall carbon nanotubes. The material resistance is assessed through fatigue response, local behavior, local properties, and failure mechanisms, including crack density and microcrack propagation behavior. The book also explores the degradation of macroscopic mechanical properties such as elastic modulus and compressive strength versus plastic strains. Additionally, it focuses on the progress made in out-of-plane composite characterization and modeling response for simulations of critical mechanical parts currently used in different industries, thanks to advances in manufacturing techniques that allow for the production of increasingly complex and thicker geometries.
Author(s): V. Tuninetti, C. Medina, A. Salas, I. Valdivia, E. Fernández, M. Meléndrez, G. Pincheira, P. Flores
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 66
City: Cham
Contents
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1 Introduction to Fiber-Reinforced Composites Materials
1.1 Organization of the Book
References
2 Out-of-Plane Compressive Fatigue Behavior of Unidirectional Glass Fiber-Reinforced Composite
2.1 Manufacturing of Fiber-Reinforced Composite
2.2 Methodology for Determining the Influence of IFSS Out-of-Plane Fatigue Behavior
2.3 Micro- and Macro-Scale Analysis
2.4 Conclusions
3 Analysis and Prediction of Failure in FRP
3.1 Failure Criteria for Composite Materials
3.2 Material Characterization
3.3 Experimental Setup and Sample Manufacturing for Failure Model Validation
3.4 Computational Failure Analysis
3.5 Conclusions
References
4 Impact of the Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes on the Transverse Compressive Strength and Damage
4.1 Investigated FRC Engineered with MWCNT
4.2 Experimental Monotonic and Cyclic Compression Testing
4.3 Microcracking Analysis and Characterization of Material Degradation
4.4 Conclusions
References
5 Mechanical Performance of FRC Manufactured from Recycled Carbon Fibers with Grown CNTs
5.1 Recycled Carbon Fibers and CNT Growth
5.2 Mechanical Performance of Recycled Fibers
5.3 Conclusions
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