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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (7): 428971-428971.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2023.28971

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Optimal design of fracture toughness for CNT⁃epoxy composites

Wenbin JIA1,2(), Lei FANG2, Gen ZHANG3, Jian SHI3, Zekan HE1, Haijun XUAN1   

  1. 1.College of Energy Engineering,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310027,China
    2.College of Energy and Power Engineering,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    3.AECC Sichuan Gas Turbine Establishment,Chengdu 610500,China
  • Received:2023-05-08 Revised:2023-06-02 Accepted:2023-07-11 Online:2024-04-15 Published:2023-07-14
  • Contact: Wenbin JIA E-mail:jiawenbin@zju.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(GZC20232263);Young Scientist Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China(52305165)

Abstract:

Compared with carbon fiber, Carbon Nanotube (CNT) is the ideal reinforcement phase for the epoxy composites,which has higher mechanical properties and lower density and, the great potential application in the aerospace field. A processing scheme was proposed for the CNT-epoxy Single-Edge Notched Bend (SENB) specimens, and the measuring methods of microscopic structure and parameters were proposed. The fracture toughness tests were conducted on the SENB specimens with different MWCNT lengths and oxidation times. The effects of the interfacial length and interfacial C—C bond density on the fracture toughness were quantitatively analyzed, and the fracture toughness optimization scheme was proposed. The experimental results show that: the interfacial C—C bond density and ozone oxidation time of CNTs show linear relationship; the relative fracture toughness enhancement rate increases rapidly with the increase of the ozone oxidation time, and then decreases dramatically. This means that there exists a critical interfacial C—C bond density, where the relative fracture toughness enhancement rate reaches maximum; for the weak interface, the relative fracture toughness enhancement rate increases rapidly with the increase of the interfacial length, and then decreases slightly; for the strong interface, the relative fracture toughness enhancement rate increases rapidly with the increase of the interfacial length, and then decreases dramatically; the fracture toughness reaches maximum, when the amounts of CNT pullout and CNT fracture are approximately equal,which means that the fracture toughness reaches maximum under the transition condition of the failure mode from the CNT pullout to CNT fracture.

Key words: interfacial length, interfacial C—C bond density, CNT composites, fracture toughness, optimal design

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