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Influence of Fiber Orientation and Fillers on Low Velocity Impact Response of the Fabric Reinforced Epoxy Composites

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The low velocity impact response of the epoxy composite materials, which were reinforced with various hybrid contents, such as plain pure or hybrid fabrics (carbon, aramid and glass fibers and copper wires) and filler mixtures into the epoxy matrix (aramid powder, potatoes starch, barium ferrite and carbon black) was investigated using a drop weight impact machine. The aim of this study was to characterize and assess the effects of fiber orientation at various angles and filler mixtures into epoxy matrix on the impact response. All the tests were carried out at constant impact energy, namely 90.629 J. Results indicated that the fiber orientation at various angles has a positive effect on impact response, mainly in the case of aramid fabric reinforced composites. In terms of influence of fillers addition into matrix, it was obtained an improvement on the impact response of hybrid fabric reinforced composite as compared to the pure fabric reinforced composites.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the project UID/EEA/04436/2019, by FEDER funds through the COMPETE 2020 – Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) with the reference project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006941 and the project with reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000018-HAMaBICo.

Also, this work has been funded by the European Social Fund through the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Capital 2014-2020, through the Financial Agreement with the title in English: "Scholarships for entrepreneurial education among doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers (Be Entrepreneur!)", Contract no. 51680/09.07.2019—SMIS code: 124539.

This work was also supported by the Project "EXPERT", Contract no. 14PFE/17.10.2018.

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  1. Department of Applied Sciences, Cross–Border Faculty, “Dunarea de Jos”, University of Galati, Domneasca 47, 800008, Galati, Romania

    M. Bunea, V. Bria & I. G. Bîrsan

  2. CMEMS-UMinho, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    F. S. Silva

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Domneasca 47, 800008, Galati, Romania

    M. Buciumeanu

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Bunea, M., Bria, V., Silva, F.S. et al. Influence of Fiber Orientation and Fillers on Low Velocity Impact Response of the Fabric Reinforced Epoxy Composites. Appl Compos Mater 28, 1277–1290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-021-09910-1

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