| A STUDY ON CURING TEMPERATURE AND FRACTURE MECHANISM OF CARBON AND GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS USING AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY |
| Tial Cuai Man, Preechar Karin, Ye Htet Lin, Patcharee Larpsuriyakul, Naoto Ohtake |
1King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
2National Science and Technology Development Agency
3Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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| ABSTRACT |
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The morphology and nanostructure of carbon and glass fiber are investigated by using XRD, SEM and TEM analysis. The composites are divided into three groups which consists of “without post-curing”, “post-cured at 80 ºC for 6 hrs” and “post-cured at 120 ºC for 3 hrs” to investigate curing temperature effect. The mechanical properties of composites are tested in the indentation, tensile, and flexural machine with ASTM standard. According to the results, the hardness of post-curing of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) are increased approximately three-times and 5 % compared to with and without post-curing process. The tensile strength of CFRP and GFRP are approximately 458 MPa and 385 MPa, while post-cured at 120 ºC for the three-hour results are 490 MPa and 433 MPa respectively. In contrast, composites of treated fiber are not improved mechanical strength significantly for CFRP, while GFRP are slightly increased by 7 %. On the other hand, the flexural strength of treated carbon and glass fiber of composite are increased to 3 % and 15 % respectively. Higher temperature and treated fiber composites of carbon fiber are not significantly improved because high temperature curing and treated fiber created more porous to occur fracture internally. |
| Key Words:
Carbon fiber, Composite material, Electron microscopy, Fracture mechanism, Glass fiber, Nanostructure |
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Preechar Karin , Email. 
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