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1. Fabrication and mechanical properties of hybrid multi-scale epoxy composites reinforced with conventional carbon fiber fabrics surface-attached with electrospun carbon nanofiber mats

Author

Chen, Qi, Zhao, Yong, Zhou, Zhengping, Rahman, Arifur, Wu, Xiang-Fa, Wu, Weidong, Xu, Tao, and Fong, Hao

Subjects
*MECHANICAL behavior of materials, *COMPOSITE materials, *CARBON fibers, *ELECTROSPINNING, *CARBON nanofibers, *POLYACRYLONITRILES, *EPOXY resins
Abstract

Abstract: This paper reports the fabrication and mechanical properties of hybrid multi-scale epoxy composites reinforced with conventional carbon fiber (CF) fabrics surface-attached with electrospun carbon nanofiber (ECN) mats. The ECNs were prepared via thermal treatments of polyacrylonitrile copolymer nanofibers, which were produced by the electrospinning technique and collected as overlaid mats on the T300 CF fabrics. The ECN-CF fabrics/mats were used as innovative reinforcement fillers for the fabrication of hybrid multi-scale composites (with SC-15 epoxy resin) through the composite-manufacturing technique of vacuum assisted resin transfer molding. Three-point bending test and short-beam shear test were carried out to evaluate the strengthening/toughening effects of ECNs on mechanical properties of the novel composites. The results indicated that out-of-plane mechanical properties of the ECN-CF/epoxy composites were considerably higher than the control sample of traditional CF/epoxy composites. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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2013
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