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Investigation on the Mechanical Properties of SMA/GF/Epoxy Hybrid Composite Laminates: Flexural, Impact, and
Shicheng Zhao1, Jianxin Teng2, Zhenqing Wang3
1College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. 13654574602@163.com.
Abstract:
In this article, hybrid composite laminates with shape memory alloy (SMA) and glass fiber (GF) as the reinforced phase, and epoxy resin as the host material, were manufactured by vacuum-assisted resin injection (VARI) processing. The SMA wires were embedded into the GF/epoxy composites with three kinds of modes. The effect of SMA content and the position on the flexural, low-velocity impact performance of the hybrid composite laminates was investigated. It was found that the bonding performance between the SMA wire and the host material is the key factor that determined the final overall performance of the hybrid composite laminates in both the static and dynamics tests. Based on these experimental phenomenon, we further carried out the fiber pull-out experiment to improve the interfacial shear strength between the SMA and epoxy resin. It was found that the interfacial performance could be enhanced significantly by adding nanoparticles in the interface phase.
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