ISSN:
1662-7482
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Hybrid laminates of glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRP) are being increasingly usedfor marine structures under multidirectional loadings, due to their anisotropic behavior, corrosionresistance, high specific strength and stiffness. Therefore appropriate laminate configuration formarine environment applications is an important field of study. Five types of fibre epoxy laminatesconfigurations, resulting from different combinations of three layers of chopped strand mats (CSM)and woven roving (WR) were fabricated using the vacuum resin transfer moulding (VRTM)technique. These were investigated for the effect of seawater on its impact properties. The resultsshowed a significant reduction in the impact strength in all types of wet specimens. This behaviormay be attributed to penetration of water molecules in the composites. The impact properties ofhybrid laminates using a mixture of CSM and WR were found to be better than combination oflaminates comprising only CSM and WR under both dry and wet conditions for marine structure
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/39/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAMM.7-8.223.pdf
