Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Tensile Behaviour of Bamboo-Glass Fibres Hybrid Reinforced Polymer Composites

Abstract:

The paper presents the experimental and numerical investigations of the tensile properties of bamboo-glass fibres hybrid reinforced unsaturated polyester composites. The stacking configuration was GGBBBGG and GBGBGBG, with G and B, respectively denoted BFRP and GFRP. The hybrid composites were manufactured using a resin infusion technique. It was found that the tensile strength of the GGBBBGG was higher than that of GBGBGBG, but the elastic modulus seemed not significantly different. Hence, the glass fibres positioned at the outer layer (as skin of a sandwich composite) gave the better tensile properties than that of the alternating configuration. Numerical work utilising an extended finite element method (XFEM) had been undertaken, and a reasonable agreement on the failure load was found between the numerical and experimental results. However, the numerical load-displacement curves were underpredicted, which might be due to the load train of the testing equipment and also, the model did not include delamination within the layers.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 941)
• Pages: 233-239
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-fp56q1
• Online since: March 2023
• Authors: Sugiman Sugiman*, Paryanto Dwi Setyawan, Agus Dwi Catur, Hilton Ahmad
• Keywords: Bamboo Fibre, Experimental, Glass Fibre, Hybrid Composites, XFEM

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