The effectiveness of patch repairs to restore the impact properties of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic composites
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Journal Article
Abstract
The present paper studies the low-velocity impact testing of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic (CFRP) pristine and patch-repair CFRP panels. Firstly, the effect of repeated impacts on the pristine CFRP damage growth is considered at impact energies of 7.5, 10.5 and 30 J. Secondly, such tests lead to a single-sided, patch-repair panel being manufactured by removing a 40 mm diameter central hole, to act as the ‘damaged area’, from the parent CFRP panel and then adhesively-bonding a circular CFRP patch-repair over the hole so generated. Various diameters and thicknesses for the CFRP patch-repair are employed and, in some cases, a CFRP circular plug is also used to fill the hole created by removal of the parent composite. The measured load versus time, and load versus displacement, traces are compared. Further, the extent and location of any interlaminar damage, i.e. delaminations between the plies of the CFRP, caused by the impact event are mapped using an ultrasonic C-scan technique. It is shown that single-sided patch repairs can be very effective in restoring the impact performance of damaged CFRP panels.
Date Issued
2022-07-01
Date Acceptance
2022-05-23
Citation
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022, 270
ISSN
0013-7944
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Volume
270
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sponsor
Aircraft Strength Research Institute, AVIC
Beijing Aeronautical Science & Technology Research Institute, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Limited
Grant Number
MESM_P73327
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Subjects
Mechanical Engineering & Transports
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 108570
Date Publish Online
2022-06-06