Effect of Glass Fiber Stacking Sequence on the Notch Sensitivity of Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Matrix Composites | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Chemistry | ||
| Article 16, Volume 63, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 2977-2986 PDF (1.45 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2020.19497.2186 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Gomma Abdalla; Elsayed Elbadry; Mohammed Aboraia* | ||
| Mining and Metatallurgical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research article investigated the effect of stacking sequence of glass fibers on the notched and unnotched tensile strength of glass fibers plies reinforced epoxy matrix composites fabricated by the hand lay-up technique. The orientation of glass fabrics was kept at [(0/90)]5, [(45/-45)]5 and [(0/90), (45/-45), ]s and all the laminates were prepared using five plies for different stacking sequences with fiber volume content of 38.6 vol.% with different ratios of the specimen hole diameter to the specimen width with three different values (0.1, 0.2, 0.5). The notch sensitivity of these composites was evaluated applying Whitney-Nuismer mathematical model. The results indicated that the composites with [(0/90)]5 stacking sequence displays the highest tensile unnotched strength, whereas the composites with [±45°]5 stacking sequence displays the least strength. Moreover, the notch sensitivity of [±45°]5 composites is almost higher than those of other stacking sequences with different D/W ratios. On the other hand, the notch sensitivity of [(0/90), (45/-45), ]s composites is slightly lower than those of [(0/90)]5 composite structures for different D/W ratios. Moreover, SEM micrographs indicates the most common failure modes for [(0/90), (45/-45), ]s and [(45/-45)]5 are more significant delamination and matrix cracking than that of [(0, 90)]5. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Stacking sequence, Notch sensitivity of glass composites; Characteristic distance | ||
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