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- Title
An Aging Evaluation of the Bearing Performances of Glass Fiber Composite Laminate in Salt Spray Fog Environment.
- Authors
Calabrese, Luigi; Fiore, Vincenzo; Bruzzaniti, Paolo Giovanni; Scalici, Tommaso; Valenza, Antonino
- Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to assess the bearing performance evolution of pinned, glass-composite laminates due to environmental aging in salt-spray fog tests. Glass fibers/epoxy pinned laminates were exposed for up to 60 days in salt-spraying, foggy environmental conditions (according to ASTM B117 standard). In order to evaluate the relationship between mechanical failure mode and joint stability over increasing aging time, different single lap joints, measured by the changing hole diameter (D), laminate width (W) and hole free edge distance (E), were characterized at varying aging steps. Based on this approach, the property-structure relationship of glass-fibers/epoxy laminates was assessed under these critical environmental conditions. Furthermore, an experimental 2D failure map, clustering main failure modes in the plane E/D versus W/D ratios, was generated, and its cluster variation was analyzed at each degree of aging.
- Subjects
GLASS composites; FIBROUS composites; GLASS fibers; FAILURE mode &; effects analysis; LAP joints; BENZENEDICARBONITRILE
- Publication
Fibers, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 11, p96
- ISSN
2079-6439
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/fib7110096