Fabrication of Glass/Jute Hybrid Composite over Wrapped Aluminum Cylinders: An Advanced Material for Automotive Applications

As a class of promising cost-effective lightweight structures, metal-composite hybrids have rapidly emerged in automotive industry largely attributable to their outstanding multifunctional and crashworthy characteristics. The aim of this study is to investigate the potentiality of metal-composite cy...

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Published in:Fibers and polymers 2023, 24(1), , pp.143-156
Main Authors: El-baky, Marwa A. Abd, Allah, Mahmoud M. Awd, Kamel, Madeha, Abdel-Aziem, Walaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum
Automobile industry
Axial loads
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Crashworthiness
Cylinders
Deformation
Energy absorption
Hybrid composites
Impact strength
Jute
Polymer Sciences
Regular Article
Specific energy
Weight reduction
섬유공학
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Summary:As a class of promising cost-effective lightweight structures, metal-composite hybrids have rapidly emerged in automotive industry largely attributable to their outstanding multifunctional and crashworthy characteristics. The aim of this study is to investigate the potentiality of metal-composite cylinders for crash energy absorption applications. In this context, the crashworthiness performance, and the deformation history of jute (J)/glass (G) reinforced epoxy hybrid composite over wrapped aluminum (Al) cylinders were experimentally studied under quasi-static axial loading. Crashworthiness characteristics of the proposed cylinders were evaluated by measuring the average and peak crushing loads ( F avg , F ip ), specific energy absorption ( SEA ), total absorbed energy ( U ) , and crush force efficiency ( CFE ). The influence of the number of J-layers on the deformation profiles has also been defined. Result revealed that the highest ( F ip ), ( F avg ) , and ( SEA ) noted for Al-3G-2 J-3G with values of 85.45 kN, 53.14 kN, and 39.99 J/g, respectively. The maximum ( U ) was documented for Al-8G with a value of 3535.89 J. The highest ( CFE ) was recorded for Al-2G-4 J-2G followed by Al-3G-2 J-3G with a value of 0.65 and 0.62, respectively. Al-3G-2 J-3G cylinders exhibit excellent energy-absorbing capacity and could be applied as energy-absorbing crashworthiness structures in automotive applications.
ISSN:1229-9197
1875-0052
DOI:10.1007/s12221-023-00116-9