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

被引：80

作者：

Chen, Qi ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Yong ^{[1
]}

Zhou, Zhengping ^{[2
]}

Rahman, Arifur ^{[2
]}

Wu, Xiang-Fa ^{[2
]}

Wu, Weidong ^{[3
]}

Xu, Tao ^{[3
]}

Fong, Hao ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] S Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Chem, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA

[2] N Dakota State Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Fargo, ND 58108 USA

[3] Beijing Univ Chem Technol, Key Lab Beijing City Preparat & Proc Novel Polyme, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China

来源：

COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING | 2013年 / 44卷 / 01期

关键词：

Polymer-matrix composites (PMCs); Carbon fiber; Mechanical properties; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCIENCE; RESINS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.compositesb.2012.09.005

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

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. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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