Fatigue crack initiation in hybrid boron/glass/aluminum fiber metal laminates
| Autor: | Po-Ching Yeh, Jenn-Ming Yang, Po-Yu Chang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Materials science
Mechanical Engineering Alloy Glass fiber Composite number chemistry.chemical_element Young's modulus engineering.material Condensed Matter Physics symbols.namesake chemistry Mechanics of Materials Aluminium engineering symbols General Materials Science Fiber Composite material Boron Boron fiber |
| Zdroj: | Materials Science and Engineering: A. 496:273-280 |
| ISSN: | 0921-5093 |
| Popis: | The fatigue crack initiation behavior of a high modulus and hybrid boron/glass/aluminum fiber/metal laminate (FML) was investigated experimentally and analytically. Two types of hybrid boron/glass/aluminum FMLs were fabricated and studied, which consisted of aluminum alloy sheets as the metal layers and a mixture of boron fibers and glass fibers as the composite layers. For the first type, the boron fiber/prepreg and the glass fiber/prepreg were used separately in the composite layers, and for the second type, the boron fibers and the glass fibers were mingled together to form a hybrid boron/glass/prepreg composite layer. These hybrid FMLs were consolidated using an autoclave curing process. The incorporation of the boron fibers improved the Young's modulus of the composite layer in FMLs, which in turn, would improve the fatigue crack initiation life of the Al sheet. The experimental results clearly showed that the fatigue crack initiation lives for both types of hybrid boron/glass/aluminum FMLs were superior to the monolithic aluminum alloy under the same loading condition. An analytical approach was proposed to calculate the fatigue crack initiation lives of hybrid boron/glass/aluminum FMLs based on the classical laminate theory and the small-crack theory. A good correlation was obtained between the predictions and the experimental results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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