Abstract
The article presents an experimental study that has been conducted to evaluate the impact loading damage within hybrid fabric laminates - carbon and Aramid fibers. The experiments have been undertaken on a series of interply hybrid specimens with different preprags stacking sequences. Impact damage was created using an air-gun like impact device propelling spherical steel balls with diameters of 5.0mm and 10.0mm and having velocities of 113m/s and 40m/s respectively. The resulting specimen surface and internal damage (e.g., micro-cracking and debonding) was visualized nondestructively by a scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) while further interrogation of specific internal damage was visualized using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) on cross-sectioned panels.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 186-193 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 5393 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Event | Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aerospace Materials and Composites III - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Mar 16 2004 → Mar 17 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering