Mechanical Characterization of Carbon

Fibre Reinforced Composite and Hybrid

Composite
Presented by
Dr.T.Prasad.
Associate professor,AU
Dr.P.Ravikanth Raju
Associate professor,AU
Dr.J.Suresh Kumar
Professor.Department of Mechanical Engg
JNTUH,Kukatpally
 Over view of Presentation

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Results & Discussions
• Conclusions
• References
 Abstract
• From the past few decades, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) has
been extensively used in various fields such as aerospace,
marine, transportation and defense sectors because of its high
specific strength and stiffness.
• Fabrication of carbon fibre reinforced composite and hybrid
composites are made up of Aramid fibre with carbon fibre, in
various orientations such as 0⁰, 30⁰, 45⁰, 60⁰, 90⁰ layer by layer.
• Reinforced fibres are prepared using the hand lay-up technique
as per ASTM standards. In this work Mechanical property of
carbon Fibre composite and hybrid composites are to be
calculated. Finally results of carbon fibre composite and hybrid
composites are to be compared
 Introduction

• Composite is a combination of two materials in which one

of the materials, called the reinforcing phase, is in the form
of fibers, sheets, or particles, and is embedded in the other
materials called the matrix phase.
• The reinforcing material and the matrix material can be
metal, ceramic and polymer manufactured and evaluated
the Glass fibre reinforced-epoxy laminates as per the ASTM
standards.
• The mechanical properties such as tensile, impact and
flexural strengths of fabricated composites are determined
by conducting tensile, impact and flexural tests.
 Selection of Material and Sample
Preparation
• In this work, two composite laminates are prepared i.e.,
Carbon-Carbon composite and Aramid-Carbon composite
with matrix as Epoxy LY556. The reinforcements and matrix
of composites is shown in Table 1.
• Table 1: Reinforcement and Matrix of Composites
Element Carbon Composite Hybrid Composite

Reinforcement Carbon Fibre Carbon Fibre & Aramid

Fibre

Matrix Epoxy LY556 Epoxy LY556

Hand lay up process
 Experimentation
• In this work, two different orientations of the fibre
in the composites have taken to observe the effect
of change in orientation upon the mechanical
properties of the composites.

0 alignment + 45 alignment + 90 alignment 0-45-90 laminate

 Orientation 1:

• First we have placed a layer of carbon fibre with 0

degree orientation and applied resin on it and
placed another layer of carbon fibre with
orientation of 45 degree and same followed by
orientation of 90 degree. All these layers of carbon
fibre constitute into one layer of carbon composite
laminate.
 Orientation 2:
• In this we have placed a layer of carbon fibre with
30 degree orientation and applied resin on it and
placed a layer of aramid fibre with orientation of 60
degree and placed another layer of carbon fire with
orientation of 90 degree. All these layers of carbon
and aramid fibres constitute into one laminate of
carbon-aramid composite.

• 30 alignment + 60 alignment + 90 alignment = 30-60-90 laminate

 Sample Preparation
• A Shaper machine was used to cut each laminate into smaller pieces,
for various experiments.
• Tensile Test- ASTM D3039-Sample was cut into dumbbell shape
(160x20x3) mm.

• Flexural Test- ASTM D3410- Sample was cut into flat shape
(160x30x3) mm,
 Compression Test-ASTM D7264 Sample was cut into flat shape
(160x30x3) mm

Impact Test- ASTM D2364 Sample was cut into flat shape (55×10×3)
 Results and Discussions
• Tensile Test: The tensile tests are conducted on UTM to know the
ultimate load of the specimens. Ultimate strength values obtained for
different specimens are shown in Table 1.

Specimen Ult. Load kN Ult. Tensile Elongation Yield Load Yield

Strength % kN Stress
MPa MPa

1 19.320 271.044 12.600 9.000 126.263

2 7.520 111.871 13.200 4.120 61.291

3 10.040 207.096 4.200 9.360 193.069

4 8.480 157.037 5.400 4.400 81.481

Results and Discussions

Carbon-carbon composite with Orientation 0-45-90

 Results and Discussions
• Compression Test:

Specimen Ultimate Load KN

1 1.620
2 1.700
3 2.460
4 4.020
Results and Discussions
 Results and Discussions

• Bending test:
Specimen Ultimate Load kN

1 1.200
2 1.680
3 2.560
4 4.520
Results and Discussions

Carbon-Carbon Composite with Orientation 0-45-90

 Results and Discussions

• Impact Test:
Specimen Energy Absorbed
(Joules)
1 3
2 2
3 2
4 2
 Conclusions
• In this work, four specimens are prepared with carbon-carbon and
carbon-aramid with orientations of 0 – 45 – 90 and 30 – 60 – 90 .The
fabricated specimens are undergone for tensile, compression, impact
and bending tests. The following conclusions are drawn from the
work:
• Increase of reinforcement percentage possesses increase in Ultimate
• strength of carbon-carbon composite and hybrid composite.
• Significant increase of reinforcement percentage found substantial
growth in elongation of specimen.
• There is a significant increase in yield strength with the increase of
• percentage of reinforcement.
 Conclusions
• The maximum tensile strength of carbon-
carbon composite at 0-45- 90 is 271 mpa.
• The maximum bending stress of hybrid
composite at 0 – 45- 90 is 27.33 mpa.
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