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Erosion mechanism and damage behavior of CFRP in plastic abrasive jet machining

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Substrate damage brings great challenges to the efficient and nondestructive removal of aircraft skin coatings. Variable load erosion tests of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced plastic along different fiber orientations were carried out. The effects of different fiber orientations on the erosion mechanism of CFRP are discussed separately. The matrix resin is squeezed and accumulated as platelets due to the erosion of the particles, and these platelets are removed due to repeated impacts of subsequent abrasives. The epoxy resin on the top layer of the laminate is penetrated by the particles with increased energy loss, and the fiber breakage is attributed to the direct impact of the particles on the carbon fiber. Fiber fractures are divided into micro-brittle fractures and macro-brittle fractures. Cracks are initiated by the concentrated stress of particle extrusion and propagate between the graphite crystallites, resulting in irregular micro-brittle fracture and fiber failure. Under the condition of macro-brittle fracture, the fiber will be debonded, flexural deformed, and even lost under the concentrated stress of particle extrusion. The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical reference on the mechanism by which nondestructive and efficient removal of stealth coatings can be achieved on aircraft skins.

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This work was supported by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U20A20293). The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52075254); Jiangsu Science and Technology Planning Project (industry foresight and common key technologies) (BE 2018072).

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Yangyang Zhao: investigation, data curation, visualization, writing-original draft, and methodology. Wenzhuang Lu: project administration, funding acquisition, writing-review and editing, and supervision. Yansong Zhu: resources, writing-review and editing, and supervision. Dunwen Zuo: conceptualization and supervision.

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Zhao, Y., Lu, W., Zhu, Y. et al. Erosion mechanism and damage behavior of CFRP in plastic abrasive jet machining. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 121, 4905–4918 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09667-2

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