TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of seawater immersion on the drill induced delamination failure in glass fiber reinforced polymer composites – Experimental and statistical analysis
AU - Bhat, Ritesh
AU - Mohan, Nanjangud
AU - Sharma, Sathyashankara
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education for providing the state-of-the-art lab facility for smoothly conducting the undertaken work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Composite materials, particularly glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite, have established a strong presence in the marine industry. Its marine applications range from constructing massive naval vessels to constructing simple fishing boat hulls. Previous research has established that seawater aging has a detrimental effect on the physical and mechanical properties of GFRPs. Additionally, drilling composites are known to cause delamination damage, resulting in a high failure rate. Since composite components are assembled with fasteners, drilling operations are unavoidable. Thus, the current study examines the effect of seawater aging at a macroscopic level while considering the input parameters spindle speed and feed and material thickness and the response variables as peel-up and push-down delamination damages. The result indicated higher failure rates in the seawater-treated composites than in untreated composites. The maximum damages were seen in the 60 days of immersed composites, wherein the peel-up delamination damage increased by 290.22, 305.86, and 250.81 %, and the push-down delamination damage increased by 69.48, 76.38, 64.28 % in 6, 8 and 10 mm composites, respectively. The combinational effect of seawater degradation of GFRP composites and the damages caused by the cutting forces (function of speed and feed) attribute to the failure rate increase concerning the drilling-induced delamination damages in the composites. In addition to investigating the effect of seawater immersion on damages, the study also provides the regression analysis-based mathematical model having high goodness of fit and predicting capability to determine the damages for the given values of input variables.
AB - Composite materials, particularly glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite, have established a strong presence in the marine industry. Its marine applications range from constructing massive naval vessels to constructing simple fishing boat hulls. Previous research has established that seawater aging has a detrimental effect on the physical and mechanical properties of GFRPs. Additionally, drilling composites are known to cause delamination damage, resulting in a high failure rate. Since composite components are assembled with fasteners, drilling operations are unavoidable. Thus, the current study examines the effect of seawater aging at a macroscopic level while considering the input parameters spindle speed and feed and material thickness and the response variables as peel-up and push-down delamination damages. The result indicated higher failure rates in the seawater-treated composites than in untreated composites. The maximum damages were seen in the 60 days of immersed composites, wherein the peel-up delamination damage increased by 290.22, 305.86, and 250.81 %, and the push-down delamination damage increased by 69.48, 76.38, 64.28 % in 6, 8 and 10 mm composites, respectively. The combinational effect of seawater degradation of GFRP composites and the damages caused by the cutting forces (function of speed and feed) attribute to the failure rate increase concerning the drilling-induced delamination damages in the composites. In addition to investigating the effect of seawater immersion on damages, the study also provides the regression analysis-based mathematical model having high goodness of fit and predicting capability to determine the damages for the given values of input variables.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2022.106803
DO - 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2022.106803
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138168991
SN - 1350-6307
VL - 142
JO - Engineering Failure Analysis
JF - Engineering Failure Analysis
M1 - 106803
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