Performance of stitched/unstitched woven carbon/epoxy composites under high velocity impact loading

Composite Structures

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 455-466

  Hosur, M V ^a   Vaidya, U K ^b   Ulven, C ^b   Jeelani, S ^a  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic limit; Damage resistance; Stitching; Ultrasonics; Woven composites

Indexed keywords

EPOXY RESINS; LAMINATES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

EPOXY COMPOSITES; IMPACT LOADING;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

BALLISTIC RESISTANCE; CARBON FIBER; DAMAGE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; LOADING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STITCH; ULTRASONICS; WOVEN FABRIC;

EID: 2142706716     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2003.09.046     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Abrate S. Impact on laminated composite materials Appl. Mech. Rev. 44 4 1991 155-190
2. Abrate S. Impact on laminated composite materials: recent advances Appl. Mech. Rev. 47 11 1994 517-544
3. Cantwell W.J. Morton J. Detection of impact damage in CFRP laminates Compos. Struct. 3 1985 241-257
4. Cantwell W.J. Morton J. The influence of varying projectile mass on the impact response of CRFP Compos. Struct. 13 1989 114-191
5. Cantwell W.J. Morton J. Comparison of the low and high velocity impact response of CFRP Composites 20 6 1989 545-551
6. Cantwell W.J. Morton J. Impact perforation of carbon fibre reinforced plastic Compos. Sci. Technol. 38 1990 119-141
7. Lee S.W.R. Sun C.T. Dynamic penetration of graphite/epoxy laminates impacted by a blunt ended projectile Compos. Sci. Technol. 49 1993 369-380
8. Sun C.T. Potti V. A simple model to predict residual velocities of thick composite laminates subjected to high velocity impact Int. J. Impact Eng. 18 3 1996 339-353
9. Nandlall D. Williams K. Vaziri R. Numerical simulation of the ballistic response of GRP plates Compos. Sci. Technol. 58 1998 1463-1469
10. Morye S.S. Hine P.J. Duckett R.A. Carr C.J. Ward I.M. Modeling of the energy absorption by polymer composites upon ballistic impact Compos. Sci. Technol. 60 2000 2631-2642
11. Huang SL, Richey RJ, Deska EW. Cross reinforcement in a GFRP laminate. Paper Presented at ASME, Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 10-15 December 1978
12. Mignery LA, Sun CT, Tan TM. The use of stitching to suppress delamination in laminated composites. ASTM STP 876, 1985. p. 371-85
13. Kang T.J. Lee S.H. Effect of stitching on the mechanical and impact properties of woven laminate composite J. Compos. Mater. 28 16 1994 1574-1587
14. Dransfield K, Baillie C, Mai Y. Improving the delamination resistance of CFRP by stitching--a review. Compos Sci Technol 50:305-17
15. Enboa W, Jyue W. Behavior of stitched laminates under in-plane tensile and transverse impact loading. J Compos Mater 29:2254-79
16. Reeder J. Stitching vs. A toughened matrix: compression strength effects. NASA Langley Research Center, USA, Mechanics of Textile Composites Conference, October 1995. p. 99-130
17. Hosur M.V. Adya M. Alexander J. Vaidya U.K. Jeelani S. Mayer A. Studies on impact damage resistance of affordable stitched woven carbon/epoxy composite laminates J. Reinf. Plast. Compos. 22 10 2003 927-952
18. Kim J.K. Sham M.L. Impact and delamination failure of woven fabric composites Compos. Sci. Technol. 60 2000 645-761
19. Mines R.A.W. Roach A.M. Jones N. High velocity perforation behavior of polymer composite laminates Int. J. Impact Eng. 22 1999 561-588
20. Gellert E.P. Cimpoeru S.J. Woodward R.L. A study of the effect of target thickness on the ballistic perforation of glass-fibre-reinforced plastic composites Int. J. Impact Eng. 24 2000 445-456
21. Iremonger M.J. Went A.C. Ballistic impact of fibre composite armours by fragment simulating projectiles Composites Part A 27A 1996 575-581
22. Larsson F. Damage tolerance of a stitched carbon/epoxy laminate Composites Part A 28A 1997 923-934
23. Mouritz A.P. Ballistic impact and explosive blast resistance of stitched composites Composites Part B 32 2001 431-439
24. Greenhalgh E. Hiley M. The assessment of novel materials and processes for the impact tolerant design of stiffened composite aerospace structures Composites Part A 34 2 2003 151-156
25. Schwartz M.M. Composite materials--processing, fabrication and applications vol. II 1996 Prentice-Hall Publishers
26. Faiz R. Net RTM preforming process for cost-effective manufacturing of military ground vehicle composite structures. In: 28th International SAMPE Technical Conference, Seattle, WA, November 1996. p. 381-92
27. Vaidya U.K. Ulven C. Hosur M.V. Alexander J. Liudahl L. Intermediate velocity impact response of carbon/epoxy composites with polycarbonate facing Polym Polym Compos 11 6 2003 421-432
28. Ulven C. Vaidya U.K. Hosur M.V. Effect of projectile shape during ballistic perforation of VARTM carbon/epoxy composite panels Compos. Struct. 61 1-2 2003 143-150
29. Hosur MV, Karim MR, Jeelani S. Studies on stitched woven S2-glass/epoxy laminates under low velocity and ballistic impact loading. J Reinf Plast Compos, in press