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Vibration damping properties of graphene nanoplatelets filled glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites

  • Ahmet Erkliğ ORCID logo , Bashar Younus , Nurettin Furkan Doğan ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Mohamad Alsaadi ORCID logo , Mehmet Bulut ORCID logo and Bahjat Hardan Sulaiman
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International Polymer Processing
From the journal International Polymer Processing Volume 38 Issue 2

Abstract

The present study investigates the effect of carbon fiber hybridization and graphene nanoplatelets inclusion on the vibration damping properties of glass fiber reinforced polymer composites. The hand layup method was utilized with hot press molding in hybrid/non-hybrid composite plate production. A total of sixteen laminates, eight containing pure glass/epoxy and pure carbon/epoxy, and the remainder containing glass/carbon, were stacked in four different arrays and impregnated with an epoxy matrix to provide a hybrid/non-hybrid configuration. In the first hybrid configuration, the glass fiber fabric is on the outer surface and the carbon fiber fabric is on the inside of the composite plate; in the second configuration, the opposite of this sequence was used. Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNPs) were added into the epoxy resin in different weight fractions (0, 0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 wt%). Experimental modal analysis was performed to evaluate the natural frequency and damping ratios of the GNPs modified/unmodified test samples. According to the results obtained, carbon fiber hybridization not only increased the natural frequency but also caused a decrease in the damping ratio of the glass fiber reinforced composite material. On the other hand, incorporating 0.5% by weight of GNPs into the epoxy matrix improved damping ratios by approximately 42.1, 51.6, 16.7 and 17.2% for the G05, GC05, CG05 and C05 samples, respectively, compared to the pure samples. Also, a decrease in natural frequency and loss storage values were observed at high GNPs content.

Keywords: carbon fiber; epoxy; glass fiber; graphene nanoplatelets; vibration
Corresponding author: Nurettin Furkan Doğan, Mechanical Engineering Department, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, 27310, Türkiye, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2022-05-18
Accepted: 2022-12-02
Published Online: 2023-01-27
Published in Print: 2023-05-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ipp-2022-4241
Keywords for this article
carbon fiber; epoxy; glass fiber; graphene nanoplatelets; vibration

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Research Articles
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  5. Vibration damping properties of graphene nanoplatelets filled glass/carbon fiber hybrid composites
  6. Optical and temperature dependent electrical properties of poly (vinyl chloride)/copper alumina nanocomposites for optoelectronic devices
  7. Numerical visualization of extensional flows in injection molding of polymer melts
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