Charpy impact properties and numerical modeling of polycarbonate composites

Polycarbonate composites are widely spread in many industries, for product manufacturing. Although these materials being used with high fidelity, their mechanical properties will highly depend on manufacturing processes, fiber orientations respect to external loads, type of loading, environmental conditions, and so forth. This paper presents the Charpy impact behavior three polycarbonate grades, notched unnotched as follows: Makrolon 2405—unreinforced polycarbonate, 9415—polycarbonate 10% glass fiber, 8035—polycarbonate 30% fiber. The experimental measurements clearly demonstrated effect content strength material: ratio increases, decreases, exhibiting brittle behavior. characterization specimens can facilitate material selection applications higher geometrical complexities, where stress concentrators cannot be eliminated. In addition, models obtained through correlations could help increase simulation accuracy speed up development cycles.