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Characterization of multilayer structures in fiber reinforced polymer employing synchrotron and laboratory X-ray CT

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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 105 Issue 7

Abstract

Specimens of carbon or glass fiber reinforced polymer can be imaged using both conventional laboratory X-ray micro-computed tomography equipment and synchrotron light sources. The image quality when using intense (partially) coherent synchrotron light is still superior, especially when applying phase-retrieval algorithms. In the resulting volume images, the fiber direction distribution and other mechanically relevant parameters such as volume fractions or layer thickness can be determined. In this contribution, we will demonstrate how fiber direction results can be used to detect regions with locally different fiber orientations in carbon or glass fiber reinforced polymer which arise in the molding process of such samples. To this end, we evaluate the three-dimensional fiber orientation tensor locally across the thickness of different specimens. For each resulting individual layer, we can automatically detect the layer thickness and the preferred fiber direction. These methods have been successfully applied to various commercial specimens. We will demonstrate results on volume images of samples from both synchrotron and laboratory micro-computed tomography and discuss the specific advantages and disadvantages in this application.

Keywords: Image analysis; Computed tomography; Fiber orientation; Mechanical properties
*Correspondence address, Dr. Oliver Wirjadi Fraunhofer ITWM Fraunhofer-Platz 1 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Tel: +49-631-31600 4396 Fax: +49-631-31600 5396 E-mail:

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Received: 2013-09-15
Accepted: 2014-04-07
Published Online: 2014-08-15
Published in Print: 2014-07-14

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Keywords for this article
Image analysis; Computed tomography; Fiber orientation; Mechanical properties

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  10. Characterization of multilayer structures in fiber reinforced polymer employing synchrotron and laboratory X-ray CT
  11. Ptychographic Fresnel coherent diffraction tomography at the nanoscale
  12. Materials research and non-destructive testing using neutron tomography methods
  13. The PPI value of open foams and its estimation using image analysis
  14. Combined use of micro computed tomography and histology to evaluate the regenerative capacity of bone grafting materials
  15. Assessing the grain structure of highly X-ray absorbing metallic alloys
  16. Microstructural analysis of a C/SiC ceramic based on the segmentation of X-ray phase contrast tomographic data
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  18. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Lorenz Ratke on his 65th birthday
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