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Impact response of composite materials
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Srinivasan, K. Tiwari, S. N. |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | Composite materials composed of carbon fibers and resin matrices offer great promise in reducing the weight of aerospace structures. However they remain extremely vulnerable to out of plane impact loads, which lead to severe losses in strength and stiffness. The results of an experimental program, undertaken to investigate the low velocity impact damage tolerance of composite materials is presented. The objectives were to identify key neat resin/composite properties that lead to enhancement of composite impact damage tolerance and to find a small scale test that predicts compression after impact properties of panels. Five materials were selected for evaluation. These systems represented different classes of material behavior such as brittle epoxy, modified epoxies, and amorphous and semicrystalling thermoplastics. The influence of fiber properties on the impact performance was also studied in one material, i.e., in polyether ether ketone (PEEK). Several 24 and 48 ply quasi-isotropic and 24 ply orthotropic laminates were examined using an instrumented drop weight impactor. Correlations with post impact compression behavior were made. |
| File Size | 1485773 |
| Page Count | 56 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19910007844 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6qz74v61 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Composite Materials Low Speed Brittleness Laminates Impact Loads Thermoplastic Resins Carbon Fibers Tolerances Mechanics Impact Strength Epoxy Resins Weight Reduction Impact Resistance Stiffness Aircraft Structures Impact Damage Matrix Materials Resin Matrix Composites Peek Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |