Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites exhibit exceptional specific stiffness and strength properties. However, their use in structural applications is often constrained with high safety margins out of concern for their brittle and sudden failures. This study proposes manipulating the tensile failure mechanism by utilizing a discontinuous overlapped architecture, which has been demonstrated in the literature to non-linearize the tensile stress-strain response of CFRP laminates. Continuous Carbon fiber 3D-printing provides freedom in building complex morphologies and adjusting the resin content, enabling intricate discontinuous patterns for further tuning the stress-strain response. This study characterizes the constituents and tensile properties of 3D-printed continuous UD laminates. Then, an investigation is conducted on the mechanical tensile response of a 3D-printed discontinuous laminates design and the effect of discontinuity pattern length, and post-processing.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:kaust.edu.sa/oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/692273 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Al Hadab, Jaafar |
| Contributors | Lubineau, Gilles, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, Baran, Derya, Guiberti, Thibault |
| Source Sets | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | 2024-05-31, At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis will become available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2024-05-31. |
| Relation | N/A |
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