Compression after impact of flax/PLA biodegradable composites

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 2017 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Polymer Testing, volume 59, pages 127-135 (issn: 0142-9418,

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Authors: Rubio-López, A.; Artero-Guerrero, J.; Pernas-Sánchez, J.; Santiuste, C.;

doi: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2017.01.025

handle: 10016/31528

Compression after impact of flax/PLA biodegradable composites

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A study of the impact behaviour and the post-impact residual strength of fully biodegradable composites is presented in this work. To this end, low-velocity impact tests and compressive residual strength tests were carried out on flax/PLA laminates. The results were compared with carbon/epoxy laminates, showing some important advantages in terms of absorbed energy and normalized residual strength. The reason was attributed to different energy absorption mechanisms; the main failure mode in flax/PLA laminates is fibre failure while residual strength of carbon/epoxy laminates is dominated by delaminations. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Authors gratefully acknowledges the support of Spanish Ministry of Economy under the project DPI2013-43994-R.

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Carlos III University of Madrid
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Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Spain

Keywords

Ingeniería Mecánica, Behavior, Biocomposites, Polymers and Plastics, Beams, Organic Chemistry, Mechanical-properties, Temperature, Low-velocity impact, Residual strength, Fibers, Plates, Biocomposite, Natural fibres, Hemp, Impact behaviour

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