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COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages 195-202Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2018.09.025
Keywords
Carbon nanotubes; Hybrid composites; Interfacial shear strength; Single-lap joint test; Multi-scale modelling
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- Australian Research Council [DP 130103958]
- Australian Government
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This paper presents a test method of twin-fibre single-lap joint bonded with a micro-droplet of epoxy and subjected to tensile loading for determining fibre-matrix interfacial shear strength (IFSS). Twenty-five carbon fibre (CF)/epoxy specimens and fifty-six carbon nanotube (CNT)-grafted CF/epoxy specimens were prepared and tested. The average IFSS measured for specimens with a mean grafting density of 10.9, 25.8, 35.1 or 58.8 CNTs per mu m(2) can be improved by 51%, 101%, 155% and 273% (223%) respectively comparing to that without grafted CNTs. A multi-scale analytical model that relates micro-scale IFSS to nanoscale CNT grafting strength and density is developed and then used for predicting the IFSS of CNT-CF reinforced composites. There exists a good correlation between the measured and predicted IFSS of specimens with different grafting densities.
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