TY - GEN
T1 - The HipERDIF (High performance discontinuous fibres) technology for the manufacturing of pseudo-ductile quasi-isotropic aligned discontinuous fibre composites
AU - Longana, Marco L.
AU - Yu, Ha Na
AU - Potter, Kevin D.
AU - Wisnom, Michael R.
AU - Hamerton, Ian
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded under the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Project [grant EP/P027393/1] “High Performance Discontinuous Fibre Composites – a sustainable route to the next generation of composites” and the EPSRC Programme grant [grant EP/I02946X/1] on High Performance Ductile Composite Technology in collaboration with Imperial College London.
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Thanks to their pseudo-ductile behaviour, both in the cured and the uncured status, certain aligned discontinuous hybrid fibre composites (ADFRCs) have the potential to overcome two of the main limiting factors to the widespread adoption of composite materials, i.e. the generation of defects during manufacturing and the catastrophic failure of the cured material. The HiPerDiF (High Performance Discontinuous Fibres) technology, invented at the University of Bristol, produces ADFRCs with mechanical properties comparable with those of continuous fibre composites. Intimately hybridising different types of fibres the HiPerDiF technology allows producing unidirectional ADFRCs with pseudo-ductile tensile behaviour. However, it is usually necessary to balance the load-carrying capability in multiple directions. In this study, glass-carbon and carbon-carbon hybrid ADFRCs are manufactured with the HiPerDiF technology and laid-up in a quasi-isotropic laminate [0/60/-60]s. The obtained laminates demonstrate the high mechanical properties and the pseudo-ductile behaviour of the quasi-isotropic hybrid ADFRC laminated materials.
AB - Thanks to their pseudo-ductile behaviour, both in the cured and the uncured status, certain aligned discontinuous hybrid fibre composites (ADFRCs) have the potential to overcome two of the main limiting factors to the widespread adoption of composite materials, i.e. the generation of defects during manufacturing and the catastrophic failure of the cured material. The HiPerDiF (High Performance Discontinuous Fibres) technology, invented at the University of Bristol, produces ADFRCs with mechanical properties comparable with those of continuous fibre composites. Intimately hybridising different types of fibres the HiPerDiF technology allows producing unidirectional ADFRCs with pseudo-ductile tensile behaviour. However, it is usually necessary to balance the load-carrying capability in multiple directions. In this study, glass-carbon and carbon-carbon hybrid ADFRCs are manufactured with the HiPerDiF technology and laid-up in a quasi-isotropic laminate [0/60/-60]s. The obtained laminates demonstrate the high mechanical properties and the pseudo-ductile behaviour of the quasi-isotropic hybrid ADFRC laminated materials.
KW - Aligned discontinuous fibres
KW - Pseudo-ductility
KW - Quasi-isotropic laminate
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M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85097574613
T3 - ECCM 2018 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials
BT - ECCM 2018 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials
PB - Applied Mechanics Laboratory
T2 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM 2018
Y2 - 24 June 2018 through 28 June 2018
ER -