A study of mixed mode interlaminar fracture on nanoclay enhanced epoxy/glass fiber composites

ISSN: 0870-8312

Ciência & Tecnologia dos Materiais is the official journal of SPM, the Portuguese Society of Materials (Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais), providing a forum for publishing peer-reviewed papers related to both fundamentals of materials science and technological application of engineering materials. The scope of the journal covers a wide range of topics in materials science that are of interest to the SPM, encompassing electrochemistry, corrosion and protection of materials, extractive metallurgy and recycling, electronic and optoelectronic materials, biomaterials, forest materials, polymeric and composite materials, foundry, heat treatment and surface engineering, tribology, and fracture. Science and Technology of Materials welcomes contributions in the form of original research papers, review articles and technical notes reporting advances on those fields, emphasizing new materials, new products and devices, and new technologies. Continued as Science and Tecnology of Materials

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Fiber reinforced laminate are widely used in aerospace, automobile and marine industries, despite its poor interlaminar fracture toughness (IFT), as consequence of the absence of fibers to sustain transverse load. One way recently explored with relative success in order to improve IFT is the use of nanoparticles to reinforce the matrix. Present paper intends to assess and discuss the fracture toughness on mixed mode loading of fiber glass mats/nanoclay enhanced epoxy matrix laminates. The matrix used was the epoxy resin Biresin® CR120 combined with the hardener CH120-3, the fiber glass was triaxial mats ETXT 450 and the nanoparticles were montmorillonite nanoclay (NC). The results were discussed in order to understand the effects of the percentage of nanoclay and the shear load quantified in terms of the GII/GI ratio on the total fracture toughness G. The incorporation of a small quantity of NC into matrices improves significantly mixed-mode IFT for all loading mode ratios GII/G. The total fracture toughness G increases with the mode II loading component and a linear mixed-mode fracture criteria reproduces the Gc against GII/G relationship.

Keywords:

composite materials

nanoparticles

mixed mode

interlaminar fracture toughness

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