Flexural performance and cost efficiency of carbon/basalt/glass hybrid FRP composite laminates
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2017
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.tws.2019.03.056
- Title of journal
- Thin-Walled Structures
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- First page
- 516
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0263-8231
- Open access status
- Exception within 3 months of publication
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Despite having high stiffness- and strength-to-weight ratios, carbon fibre reinforced plastics composites are very expensive and relatively brittle. Engineers have conventionally tried to hybridise the expensive carbon fibre with cheap/ductile glass or basalt fibres, mainly based on their professional experience. This paper is significant because it proposes a new methodology to evaluate the performance and cost efficiency of hybrid carbon/glass/basalt fibre composites which preserves the advantages of individual fibre. The findings from this paper have been extended to other composite systems by other researchers, such as natural fibre and glass fibre composites (doi.org/10.1080/15440478.2020.1775750) and architectural metal matrix composites (doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107503).
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- Non-English
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