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Carbon-fiber aluminum-foam sandwich with short aramid-fiber interfacial toughening

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First Author:Sun, Zhi

Correspondence Author:Hu, XZ (reprint author), Univ Western Australia, Sch Mech & Chem Engn, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

Co-author:Jeyaraman, J.,Sun, Shiyong,Hu, Xiaozhi,Chen, Haoran

Date of Publication:2012-11-01

Journal:COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

Included Journals:SCIE、EI

Volume:43

Issue:11

Page Number:2059-2064

ISSN No.:1359-835X

Key Words:Aramid fiber; Interface; Fractography; Short fiber toughening

Abstract:Interfacial toughness and toughening mechanisms of a sandwich beam, consisting of an aluminum foam covered with two carbon-fiber/epoxy composite surface layers, are investigated in this study. To improve the interfacial toughness of the sandwich beam, short aramid fiber of different lengths and densities were inserted at the interface during the sandwich fabrication process. The interfacial toughness between face-sheet and core was then measured through the Double Cantilever Beam test for various sandwich designs. Improvements of varying degrees in the interfacial toughness were observed for all specimens toughened with short aramid fibers of different lengths. The interfacial toughening performance and underlying mechanisms for energy absorption were discussed and analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. Crown Copyright (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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