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Flexural and hydrothermal aging behavior of silk fabric/glass mat reinforced hybrid composites

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Recycled natural materials such as silk fabric have attracted more and more public attention over the past few years. In this research, unsaturated polyester resin was used as matrix, glass mat and silk fabric were employed as reinforcement to fabricate the laminated hybrid composites by hand lay-up method. Three-point flexural quasi-static and load-controlled low cycle bending fatigue (LCBF) tests at 55 %, 70 % and 85 % pre-set load levels were performed. The composite specimens were also subjected to hot water immersion treatment at 80 oC for different durations. The effects of the immersion treatment on the bending and impact fracture characteristics were investigated. The results showed that higher flexural modulus and strength were obtained when silk fabric layer was stacked at the middle layer. It seems that the antifatigue property was improved by the inclusion of silk fabric reinforced in glass mat hybrid composites. In the water immersion experiments, both the flexural properties and impact properties were improved initially until reaching the maximum and then decreased continuously with further increase in exposure time. These seemingly contradictory behaviors are due to relaxation of the internal stress, swelling of the silk fibers and the weakening of fiber/matrix interface.

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  1. College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, P.R. China

    Defang Zhao, Yuying Dong, Jing Xu & Yuqiu Yang

  2. Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 201620, P.R. China

    Yuqiu Yang

  3. Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, 7308670, Japan

    Kiyoshi Fujiwara

  4. Toyugiken Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, 2500101, Japan

    Erika Suzuki

  5. HISHIKEN Co., Ltd., Kyoto, 6048165, Japan

    Takashi Furukawa

  6. Department of Information Systems Engineering, Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka, 5740013, Japan

    Yuka Takai

  7. Advanced Fibro-Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, 6068585, Japan

    Hiroyuki Hamada

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Zhao, D., Dong, Y., Xu, J. et al. Flexural and hydrothermal aging behavior of silk fabric/glass mat reinforced hybrid composites. Fibers Polym 17, 2131–2142 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-016-6253-x

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