INTERLAMINAR TOUGHENING OF RESIN TRANSFER MOLDED LAMINATES BY ELECTROSPUN POLYCAPROLACTONE STRUCTURES: EFFECT OF THE INTERLEAVE MORPHOLOGY

Timo Meireman, Sam van der Heijden, Lode Daelemans, Ives De Baere, Hubert Rahier, Wim Van Paepegem, Karen De Clerck

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Abstract

Previous work has shown that electrospun nanofibers can significantly improve the interlaminar fracture toughness of fiber reinforced composites. In this work the effect of the morphology of the toughening polymer is analysed by incorporating five different polycaprolactone (PCL) structures (nanofibers, microfibers, microspheres, dense films and PCL spray coated glass fibres) in the interlaminar regions (van der Heijden, 2016).
Original languageEnglish
Typeproceedings of conference
Media of outputtext
PublisherINEGI-FEUP
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • nano-structures
  • resin transfer moulding (RTM)
  • delamination

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