1. The effects of small fibre misalignment on the mechanical properties of GFRP laminates: An experimental assessment.
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Daura, Suleiman Lawal, Shubham, Singh, Kalyan Kumar, Ansari, Md. Tauhid Alam, Thakur, Raju Kumar, Gaurav, Anand, and Sankar, R.
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HIGH cycle fatigue , *FIBER orientation , *ULTIMATE strength , *FATIGUE testing machines , *FIBERS - Abstract
FRP laminated composites possess properties that greatly depend upon the fiber orientations and interactions between the participating materials. This work studies the effects of fiber misalignment on the mechanical properties of GFRP composites and the misalignments were increased in the steps of 5° to get a brief overview of the failure mechanisms upon their variations. It was observed that a change of 5°, 10°, 15° and 20° in the fiber orientations decreases the ultimate strength of the laminates by about 10, 33, 42 and 52% respectively. While the strain to failure increased by around 10, 39, 85 and 100% respectively compared to the (0°/90°, control samples) on-axis laminate. The increase in fibre orientations also changed the damage development in the samples from a well spread one (for control samples) to more localized one (mostly in the fibre direction) for the laminates with proposed misalignments. High cycle fatigue tests revealed S-N (load vs number of cycles to failure) curve that presented the best endurance limit for the on-axis samples, while plotting the similar results in terms of s-N (normalized load (σmax/σmax) vs number of cycles to failure) indicated ±10° laminates with the most gradual slope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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