%I Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
%O cited By 3
%P 515-545
%K Compression testing; Elastic constants; Failure (mechanical); Mechanisms; Reinforcement; Resins; Tensile testing; Thermosets, 3-D fabrics; 3-dimensional reinforcement; Fabric composites; Fabric-reinforced composites; Failure mechanism; Mechanical failures; Micromechanics models; Shear tests; Thermoplastic resin (elium ®); Thermoset resin, Reinforced plastics
%R 10.1007/s10443-021-09980-1
%A S.Z.H. Shah
%A P.S.M. Megat-Yusoff
%A S. Karuppanan
%A R.S. Choudhry
%A F. Ahmad
%A Z. Sajid
%T Mechanical Properties and Failure Mechanisms of Novel Resin-infused Thermoplastic and Conventional Thermoset 3D Fabric Composites
%J Applied Composite Materials
%D 2022
%L scholars16964
%V 29
%X This paper presents an extensive comparison of the mechanical properties and failure mechanisms of a recently developed thermoplastic (Elium ®) 3D fabric-reinforced composite (3D-FRC) with the conventional thermoset (epoxy) 3D-FRC. Experiments involved tensile tests, compression tests, V-notch shear tests, and short beam shear tests for specimens produced through the vacuum-assisted resin infusion process in each case. These tests were used for the determination of in-plane elastic constants, failure strengths and for investigating the failure mechanisms. A micro-mechanical model validated against these experiments was used to predict the remaining orthotropic elastic constants. This work enhances our understanding of the mechanics of infusible thermoplastic 3D-FRC as a new class of emerging materials and provides useful data which substantiates that this unconventional thermoplastic resin is also easier to recycle, uses similar manufacturing processes and can be a suitable replacement for conventional thermoset resins. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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