Effect of the inclusion of silicon carbide nanoparticles on the properties of glass/kevlar/carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites.

Because of laminated composites exceptional properties including high strength relative to weight ratio, strongly electrical insulation, and capacity to transmit load, they are being seriously considered to replace traditional materials for structural applications. In a previous study, the effect of layer arrangement on the mechanical properties of multilayered composites was studied and it turned out the setup (GF, KF, and CF) to be the best arrangement. The current study investigates at the way silicon carbide hybridization influences the tension and compression of the epoxy resin composites for the best arrangement. The composites were made using a hand lay-up technique at seven different degrees of reinforcement (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 percentages of weight (wt%)). The extracted results showed that the tensile load, as well as yield stress for many composites containing silicon carbide nanoparticles increase linearly with particle loading. As particle loading increases, both increase the tension and compression strengths. There are a few abnormalities related to aggregating of nanoparticles with increased particle loading and the creation of micro voids. Even with some nanoparticle percentages (8-10%), notable advancements were achieved in composite mechanical characteristics, higher percentages (>10%) contributed in a lesser amount improvement. A number of preset criteria, involving strain, stress, and displacement distributions have been met by the convergent process of finite element analysis with ABAQUS software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]