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Structural integrity evaluation of cyclic loading glass fibre reinforced polymer composite by acoustic emission and heat transfer
Loganathan, Thozhuvur Govindaraman Kalidas, Vinoth Kumar Bari, Klaudio Chadalavala, Hemadri Venkatachalam, Gopalan
Loganathan, Thozhuvur Govindaraman
Kalidas, Vinoth Kumar
Bari, Klaudio
Chadalavala, Hemadri
Venkatachalam, Gopalan
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GFRP composites experience structural changes like matrix cracking, debonding, delamination, and fibre failure on static and dynamic loading. In this work, composites with varying fibre orientation interaction angle and volume fractions are prepared and exposed to cyclic load. The cyclic load (R = 0) is a constant amplitude flexural load imposed on the cantilever beam specimen with varying frequencies (2.6, 4.6, 8.6 Hz) and cycles (up to 44 × 103). The structural integrity of the specimens on loading is examined in terms of Flexural, modulus, Acoustic Emission (AE) and heat transfer changes. The drop in flexural modulus is minimum in higher Vf = 32% laminate (A1 = 7.01%, B1 = 1.86%) than the lower Vf = 25% (A2 = 19.86%, B2 = 8.6%). The observed AE peak frequency for the induced damages is in the range of 50–100, 110–230, 245–380 kHz. The drop-in fibre volume fraction has a significant role in laminate with lower fibre interaction (Type A) to offer minimum variation (5.25%) in AE activity count which is the opposite in laminates with higher fibre interaction angle (31.75%). The step heat thermography exhibits minimum temperature difference (∆T) for moderate loading frequency and in a few cases, ∆T drops well below the virgin, insisting on in situ thermography to study the dynamic changes in composites. A fibre dominant behaviour can be observed with minimum variation in AE activity in a lower fibre interaction angle. Thus, the fibre orientation angle and fibre volume fraction have a significant role in the retention of the structural integrity of composites in dynamic loading.
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Loganathan, T.G., Kalidas, V.K., Bari, K., Chadalavala, H. and Venkatachalam, G. (2022) Structural integrity evaluation of cyclic loading glass fibre reinforced polymer composite by acoustic emission and heat transfer. Journal of Composite Materials, 56(24) pp.3715-3727. doi:10.1177/00219983221121891
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE on 19/08/2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983221121891 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
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0021-9983
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1530-793X