Imperial College London
Alternate

Prof Ambrose Taylor

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Materials Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7149a.c.taylor Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Valerie Crawford +44 (0)20 7594 7083

 
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Location

 

515City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Tsai:2019:10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.03.015,
author = {Tsai, SN and Carolan, D and Sprenger, S and Taylor, AC},
doi = {10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.03.015},
journal = {Composite Structures},
pages = {143--149},
title = {Fracture and fatigue behaviour of carbon fibre composites with nanoparticle-sized fibres},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.03.015},
volume = {217},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Fibre composites with thermoset polymer matrices are widely used. However, thermosets are very brittle, which can limit the applications of fibre composites. In this work, silica nanoparticles (SNPs) were used to modify two fibre sizings to improve the toughness of carbon fibre composites. Mode I interlaminar fracture and fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on the composites made using the silica nanoparticle-sized fibres. There was no significant change in the fatigue crack growth rate with the addition of SNPs. However, the addition of SNPs to either sizing increased the composite toughness. The fracture energy was significantly increased from 166 J/m 2 to 220 J/m 2 (increased by 33%) with only 0.89 wt% on fibre weight of SNPs. This is significantly more efficient than adding SNPs into the matrix, which can require addition of up to 20 wt% of SNPs [1], to achieve the same improvement in toughness.
AU  - Tsai,SN
AU  - Carolan,D
AU  - Sprenger,S
AU  - Taylor,AC
DO  - 10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.03.015
EP  - 149
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0263-8223
SP  - 143
TI  - Fracture and fatigue behaviour of carbon fibre composites with nanoparticle-sized fibres
T2  - Composite Structures
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.03.015
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/68317
VL  - 217
ER  -
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