英文摘要 |
In an effort to overcome the drawbacks of traditional sandwichstructures, such as wrinkling failure, shear failure in core materials, anddelamination, this paper proposes to make a specially modified fabrics assandwich composites. Such a modified fabric is made up of twobi-directional woven fabrics separated by vertical fibers as integratedsandwich composites. The resulting sandwich composites have thefollowing advantages: high bending stiffness, high strength, nodelamination or stress cracking, easy handling of large parts and goodformability at a low weight compared with other core materials likehoneycombs and foams. In addition, the hollow structure enables themodified fabrics to use as leak detection, cooling, insulated, and noisecontrol materials. In an effort to take full advantages of sandwich composites, a thorough understanding of their fabrication andcharacterization is necessary. To this end, the research topics include (a)fabrication of modified fabrics as a sandwich composite, and (b)characterization of the material effective properties of the compositethrough theoretical analysis and experimental measurement. It is believedthat this research will offer valuable results for composite designer to tailorthe end products and for the related industries in the material fabrication. |