ANALYSIS OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF TERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES

Year 2022, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 7 - 12, 30.06.2022

Ali Taner Kuzu Elifnur Kösemen Aysu Hande Yücel Mustafa Bakkal

Abstract

This paper presents the effect of fiber orientation on the tensile, compression, impact, and flexural properties of glass fiber reinforced acrylic-based thermoplastic composites. The mechanical behavior of three different composite plates, produced by the resin transfer molding (RTM) method, with 0o/90o/45o, 0o/90o and ±45o glass fiber orientations were investigated by carrying out tensile, compression, three-point bending and Charpy impact tests. A Weibull distribution model was implemented to explain the variation in mechanical properties of the acrylic-based composite. According to Weibull analysis results with 63.2% probability, the highest tensile strength (561 MPa), compressive strength (293 MPa) and impact values (19.44 J) were obtained when the plate with 0o/90o glass fiber orientation was tested, whereas the highest flexural strength was obtained when the plate with 0o/90o/45o was tested.

Keywords

composites, mechanical testing, thermoplastic matrix

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