Thermo-set based composites using epoxy resin systems currently dominate the composite industry. Glass-reinforced epoxy composites are extensively used in the structural composites of aircraft industry due to low shrinkage, ease of fabrication, chemical resistance, and higher mechanical and electrical properties. The above characteristics coupled with techno-economic considerations are mainly r...

Thermo-set based composites using epoxy resin systems currently dominate the composite industry. Glass-reinforced epoxy composites are extensively used in the structural composites of aircraft industry due to low shrinkage, ease of fabrication, chemical resistance, and higher mechanical and electrical properties. The above characteristics coupled with techno-economic considerations are mainly r...

Natural fibres constitute interesting, low cost and environmentally friendly precursors of carbon fibres. However, they are prone to fuse degrade upon thermal treatment, affecting the properties products unless a stabilization step was included. Aiming reach better understanding mechanism wool as potential precursor for preparation fibres, in this study we have analysed chemical, structural mor...

Deformability of a textile fabric is studied experimentally using a) friction test, b) out-of-plane compression, and c) bending. These tests reveal that a grafting of the fabric with carbon nano-fibres can significantly deteriorate its deformability. Therefore an optimal CNF mass fraction should be chosen for a particular production case, to obtain a compromise between improved strength and dec...

Abstract Background The transverse compressive properties are integral to fully utilizing the high performing mechanical of carbon fibres (CF). Direct measurements CFs difficult. Objective A system that directly measures modulus ( E T ) by interference speckle patterns measure sub-pixel resolutions is presented. Methods compression data from an isotropic glass fibre was fitted using elastic con...