An innovative approach to glass fiber reinforcement in laminates promises to resolve existing challenges with mechanical, electrical, and performance characteristics typically encountered in today’s high tech printed circuit designs. This uniquely woven glass fabric is flatter and thinner, which results in a more uniform laminate for mechanical and laser drilling. Furthermore, special propertie...

Natural fibers are receiving considerable attention as substitutes for synthetic fiber reinforcements such as glass in polymer due to their low density, low cost, acceptable specific strength, reduced tool wear and respiratory irritation and renewable resources. The fibers are not uniformly distributed in the randomly oriented fiber reinforced hybrid composites due to manual lay-up and fibers a...

The influence of fiberlmatrix interactions on the mechanical behavior of ceramic matrix composites is examined on glass matrix composites and mainly on composites made by chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) of a fiber preform by a SiC matrix. Then the relationships between interfaces and features of the stress-strain behavior are highlighted on microcomposite specimens using experimental data and...

An innovative approach to glass fiber reinforcement in laminates offers a flatter, thinner weave that result in a smoother, more uniform surface for mechanical and laser drilling as well as improved dimensional stability. The manufacturing process has been completely redesigned to be more efficient and flexible. Glass fabric produced with this new process offers superior properties for high per...

The work aimed to assess the failure progress in a glass fiber-reinforced polymer laminate with a 3D-woven and (as a comparison) plain-woven reinforcement, during static bending, using acoustic emission signals. The innovative method of the separation of the signal coming from the fiber fracture and the one coming from the matrix fracture with the use of the acoustic event's energy as a criteri...

The response over the low-velocity impact of various shape impactors on a glass fiber reinforced polymer composite has been numerically analyzed with hemispherical, flat, partially flat and truncated shaped impactor used to analyze behavior resistance GFRP at speeds. numerical analysis was carried out using finite element software, ABAQUS (Dynamic/Explicit). To assess laminates while impacting,...

This work reports the high-velocity impact response of multiscale anisogrid composite (AGC) panels. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the influence of surface-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes (S-MWCNTs) at different S-MWCNTs contents (0-0.5 wt.% at an interval of 0.1 wt.%) on the high-velocity impact responses of E-glass/epoxy AGC. Surface modification of MWCNTs is confirmed by ...

In this study, compressive strength and contraction of Polymer Composite Laminates made of E-Glass / Carbon bi-woven fabric reinforced in Epoxy resin matrix has been evaluated experimentally. Composite laminates were fabricated using hand lay-up technique for different ply orientations of 0,30,45,60 and stacking sequence of (00/300/450/600)2S for 2 and 3 mm laminate thickness. The laminates wer...