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Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties of AZ31/APC-2 Nanocomposite Laminates

This thesis aims to fabricate the high performance Magnesium/Carbon-Fiber/PEEK five-layer hybrid nanocomposite laminates. The adopted Mg thin sheets are 0.5mm thick. The Carbon-Fiber/PEEK prepregs were stacked into two lay-ups, such as cross-ply [0/90]s and quasi-isotropic [0/45/90/-45], with the adding of nanoparticles SiO2 spreaded among the laminates. After etching of Mg foils by CrO3-base etchants, a five-layered Mg/Carbon-Fiber/PEEK nanocomposite laminate was made according to the modified diaphragm curing process.
Then, the mechanical properties, such as stress-strain curve, strength and stiffness were obtained by tensile test at room temperature (25¢J), 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150¢J and the fatigue properties were also obtained under constant stress amplitude tension-tension cyclic loading elevated at room and elevated temperatures 25, 75, 100, 125 and 150¢J. Finally, the Mg sheets and fractured laminates were observed by the SEM and OM. The results according to the experiments were summarized as follows:
1.The slope of stress-strain curve dropped at strain¡Ü0.0015. It can be inferred that fracture occurred in the laminates at this time. Stiffness approached the theoretical value by curve fitting with the strain range of 0 to 0.0015.
2.The mechanical properties decreased with the environmental temperature rise.
3.The resistance to the temperature effect of the quasi-isotropic Magnesium/Carbon-Fiber/PEEK laminate is superior to that of the cross-ply Magnesium/Carbon-Fiber/PEEK laminate.
4.The cross-ply Magnesium/Carbon-Fiber/PEEK laminate is brittler than that of the quasi-isotropic laminate generally.
5.The irregular bright lines were found in the third etched Mg sheet and that resulted in the delamination of Mg sheet after treatment. The unetched part maybe the defect of Mg sheet.
6. It was found that AZ31 has the precipitation hardening effect at 50¢J and 75¢J.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728106-112746
Date28 July 2006
CreatorsLi, Pin-yuan
ContributorsChorng-Fuh Liu, Ming-Hwa R. Jen, Ming Chen, J. Chih-Ching Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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