Vajinder Singh
Articles written in Bulletin of Materials Science
Volume 38 Issue 2 April 2015 pp 309-317
I Srikanth Suresh Kumar Vajinder Singh B Rangababu Partha Ghosal Ch Subrahmanyam
Carbon-epoxy (C-epoxy) laminated composites having different fibre volume fractions (40, 50, 60 and 70) were fabricated with and without the addition of aminofunctionalized carbon nanofibres (A-CNF). Flexural strength, interlaminar shear strength (ILSS) and tensile strength of the composite laminates were determined. It was observed that, the ability of A-CNF to enhance the mechanical properties of C-epoxy diminished significantly as the fibre volume fraction (𝑉f) of the C-epoxy increased from 40 to 60. At 70𝑉f, the mechanical properties of the A-CNF reinforced C-epoxy were found to be lower compared to the C-epoxy composite made without the addition of A-CNF. In this paper suitable mechanisms for the observed trends are proposed on the basis of the fracture modes of the composite.
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