Non-destructive investigation of thermoplastic reinforced composites
Abstract
This paper studies various manufacturing defects in glass fiber/Polypropylene (PP) composite parts and their methods of detection. Foreign Object Inclusion (FOI) of different shapes, sizes, and materials were placed in a glass fiber/PP panel made by compression molding. The paper aims to characterize the fiber orientation and fiber related defects such as fiber waviness in the composite specimen. Comprehensive investigation for different Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques, namely X-ray radiography and Ultrasonic Testing (UT) techniques to trace and characterize the embedded defects and the composite texture are presented. Conventional X-ray radiography successfully identified the fiber orientation in two dimension (2-D) plane; however, information for the sample depth was not captured. The radiography techniques showed low relative errors for the defect size measurements (maximum error was below 9.5%) when compared to the ultrasonic techniques. Ultrasonic techniques were able to map all the embedded artificial defects. Phase Array (PA) ultrasonic technique was able to precisely locate the FOI in the glass fiber/PP specimen. Nerveless, the shape and size of the defects were not accurately determined due to the high signal attenuation and distortion characteristics of the E-glass fiber.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1254791
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1326439
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Composites. Part B, Engineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-8368
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Hassen, Ahmed, Taheri, Hossein, and Vaidya, Uday. Non-destructive investigation of thermoplastic reinforced composites. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.05.006.
Hassen, Ahmed, Taheri, Hossein, & Vaidya, Uday. Non-destructive investigation of thermoplastic reinforced composites. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.05.006
Hassen, Ahmed, Taheri, Hossein, and Vaidya, Uday. 2016.
"Non-destructive investigation of thermoplastic reinforced composites". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.05.006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1254791.
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title = {Non-destructive investigation of thermoplastic reinforced composites},
author = {Hassen, Ahmed and Taheri, Hossein and Vaidya, Uday},
abstractNote = {This paper studies various manufacturing defects in glass fiber/Polypropylene (PP) composite parts and their methods of detection. Foreign Object Inclusion (FOI) of different shapes, sizes, and materials were placed in a glass fiber/PP panel made by compression molding. The paper aims to characterize the fiber orientation and fiber related defects such as fiber waviness in the composite specimen. Comprehensive investigation for different Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques, namely X-ray radiography and Ultrasonic Testing (UT) techniques to trace and characterize the embedded defects and the composite texture are presented. Conventional X-ray radiography successfully identified the fiber orientation in two dimension (2-D) plane; however, information for the sample depth was not captured. The radiography techniques showed low relative errors for the defect size measurements (maximum error was below 9.5%) when compared to the ultrasonic techniques. Ultrasonic techniques were able to map all the embedded artificial defects. Phase Array (PA) ultrasonic technique was able to precisely locate the FOI in the glass fiber/PP specimen. Nerveless, the shape and size of the defects were not accurately determined due to the high signal attenuation and distortion characteristics of the E-glass fiber.},
doi = {10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.05.006},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1254791},
journal = {Composites. Part B, Engineering},
issn = {1359-8368},
number = ,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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