Experimental investigation of the impact behavior of glass/epoxy composite materials with the natural fiber layer

Aidel Kadum Jassim Al-Shamary; Ramazan Karakuzu; Halis Kandas; Okan Ozdemir

doi:10.1515/mt-2021-2133

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Experimental investigation of the impact behavior of glass/epoxy composite materials with the natural fiber layer

Aidel Kadum Jassim Al-Shamary
Aidel Kadum Jassim Al-Shamary,born in 1982, received his BSc degree in 2005 at the Technical College of Al-Musaib, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, his MSc degree in 2014 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is currently a PhD student at the Mechanics branch of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. His areas of research are impact behaviors of composite structures, post impact behaviors of plates and sandwich composite materials, natural and synthetic fibers reinforced composites materials.
, Ramazan Karakuzu , Halis Kandas
Halis Kandas, born in 1993, received his BSc degree in 2016 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, his MSc degree in 2018 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is currently a PhD student at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is a 100/2000 scholarship program student. His areas of research are impact behaviors of composite structures, post impact behaviors of composite plates, particle reinforced composites and ageing of composite materials.
and Okan Ozdemir

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Abstract

Owing to their specific advantages like thermal insulation, being lightweight and strong, laminated composites were designed by using natural fiber (female or male palm fiber) between two layers of glass stitched [0°/90°] to improve the impact properties of glass/epoxy composite. Natural fiber is cheap and plentiful in Iraq. The composite material was manufactured by vacuum assisted resin infusion molding (VARIM) at 80 °C for a duration of 8 h. The low velocity impact response of laminated composite was investigated experimentally. Impact tests were conducted on the composite specimens by Ceast Fractovis Plus impact test machine with constant mass of 5.03 kg at room temperature for the impact energies of 20 J, 30 J and 40 J. After impact tests, maximum contact forces versus impact energy, contact force versus deflection and absorbed energy-impact energy curves are drawn. The obtained results showed that the addition of palm fibers to glass/epoxy composite materials made significant contributions in absorbing energy and delaying the damage mode.

Keywords: composite material; glass fiber; low velocity impact; palm fibers; VARIM

Corresponding author: Ramazan Karakuzu, Departmet of Mechanical Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Tinaztepe Campus, Buca, 35390, Izmir, Turkey, E-mail: ramazan.karakuzu@deu.edu.tr

About the authors

Aidel Kadum Jassim Al-Shamary

Aidel Kadum Jassim Al-Shamary,born in 1982, received his BSc degree in 2005 at the Technical College of Al-Musaib, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, his MSc degree in 2014 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is currently a PhD student at the Mechanics branch of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. His areas of research are impact behaviors of composite structures, post impact behaviors of plates and sandwich composite materials, natural and synthetic fibers reinforced composites materials.

Halis Kandas

Halis Kandas, born in 1993, received his BSc degree in 2016 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, his MSc degree in 2018 at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is currently a PhD student at the Mechanics branch of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Türkiye. He is a 100/2000 scholarship program student. His areas of research are impact behaviors of composite structures, post impact behaviors of composite plates, particle reinforced composites and ageing of composite materials.

Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2022-02-03

Revised: 2022-03-30

Accepted: 2022-03-30

Published Online: 2022-06-08

Published in Print: 2022-06-27

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composite material; glass fiber; low velocity impact; palm fibers; VARIM