TY - GEN
T1 - Alignment of discontinuous recycled carbon fibre
AU - Wong, Kok H.
AU - Pickering, Stephen J.
AU - Turner, Thomas A.
AU - Warrior, Nicholas A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper describes developments in the understanding of the effect of fibre alignment on the properties of composites made from discontinuous recycled carbon fibre and describes developments in a hydrodynamic method for achieving fibre alignment. Carbon fibre recycled from shredded end-of-life composites is usually short, filamentised and randomly orientated. This imposes a challenge in reusing the fibre within the composite community as the mechanical performance of a composite is significantly affected by the reinforced fibre length, volume fraction and orientation. Hydrodynamic processing can be used to achieve alignment of discontinuous fibres to allow a higher fibre volume fraction to be obtained, providing the opportunity for higher grade applications for the recycled fibre. A design of experiments is employed to analyse the factors and interactions that have a significant effect on the fibre alignment quality. The degree of fibre alignment was quantified and the relation between compaction pressure and fibre volume fraction will be described.
AB - This paper describes developments in the understanding of the effect of fibre alignment on the properties of composites made from discontinuous recycled carbon fibre and describes developments in a hydrodynamic method for achieving fibre alignment. Carbon fibre recycled from shredded end-of-life composites is usually short, filamentised and randomly orientated. This imposes a challenge in reusing the fibre within the composite community as the mechanical performance of a composite is significantly affected by the reinforced fibre length, volume fraction and orientation. Hydrodynamic processing can be used to achieve alignment of discontinuous fibres to allow a higher fibre volume fraction to be obtained, providing the opportunity for higher grade applications for the recycled fibre. A design of experiments is employed to analyse the factors and interactions that have a significant effect on the fibre alignment quality. The degree of fibre alignment was quantified and the relation between compaction pressure and fibre volume fraction will be described.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052054121
SN - 9781934551110
T3 - International SAMPE Technical Conference
BT - 2011 SAMPE Spring Technical Conference and Exhibition - State of the Industry
T2 - 2011 SAMPE Spring Technical Conference and Exhibition - State of the Industry: Advanced Materials, Applications, and Processing Technology
Y2 - 23 May 2011 through 26 May 2011
ER -