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Hole Size Effects on the Open Hole Tensile Properties of Woven Kevlar-Glass Fibre Hybrid Composite Laminates

Norazean Shaari and Aidah Jumahat

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 25, Issue S, July 2017

Keywords: Glass fibre, hole size, hybrid composites, Kevlar fibre, open hole tensile

Published on: 28 Feb 2018

The effects of hole size on open hole tensile properties of Kevlar-glass fibre hybrid composite laminates were thoroughly investigated in this work. Woven Kevlar/glass fibre epoxy composite laminates were fabricated using hand lay-up and vacuum bagging technique. Specimens of five different hole size (1 mm, 4 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm and 12 mm) were carefully prepared before the tensile test was performed according to ASTM D5766. Results indicated that hybridizing Kevlar to glass fibres improved tensile strength and failure strain of hybrid composite specimen. In addition, increasing the hole size reduced strength retention of the hybrid specimen from 96% for 1 mm hole size to 62% and 44% for 6 mm and 12 mm, respectively. Fractography analysis showed that several types of failure mechanisms were observed such as brittle failure, ductile failure, fibre breakage, delamination and fibre-matrix splitting. It is concluded that as hole size increased, failure behaviour changed from a matrix dominated failure mode to a fibre-dominated failure mode.

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

Article ID

JST-S0357-2017

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