Carbon-fiber aluminum-foam sandwich with short aramid-fiber interfacial toughening

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2059-2064

  Sun, Zhi ^a,b   Jeyaraman, J ^a   Sun, Shiyong ^b   Hu, Xiaozhi ^a   Chen, Haoran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Aramid fiber; B. Interface; D. Fractography; Short fiber toughening

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FOAM; COMPOSITE SURFACE; DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM TEST; FABRICATION PROCESS; INTERFACIAL TOUGHNESS; SANDWICH BEAMS; SHORT FIBER; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; FOAMS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTILE FIBERS;

ARAMID FIBERS;

EID: 84865515968     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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