:: Advanced Composites Letters on-line ABSTRACTS ::

Volume 9, Issue 6, 2000
Low Energy Impact Performance of Interleaved Carbon Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Laminates

Q. Yuan^a, J. Karger-Kocsis^b, L. Ye^a

^aCentre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT), Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

^bInstitute for Composite Materials Ltd., The University of Kaiserslautern, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

(Received 6/00 ; accepted 10/00)

ABSTRACT

Cross-ply and quasi-isotropic carbon fibre reinforced epoxy (CF/EP) laminates were toughened by addition of interleaves, which consisted of either a modified epoxy resin or random PET mat embedded in a modified epoxy resin. Impact and multiple impact performances of the laminates were studied using an instrumented falling weight impact tester. A simple model was used to correlate the performance of the laminates under multiple impact.

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