Diyar Kaka
Koya University, Iraq
Title: Mechanical properties of woven composite materials reinforced with nanosilica
Biography
Biography: Diyar Kaka
Abstract
Woven composite materials are receiving more interest in different fields of engineering due to ease of manufacture and ease of orientation allowing designers to set the stiffness and strength in desired directions. This research includes optimization of the mechanical properties of woven composite materials consist of woven carbon fibre reinforced thermoset polymer. Also, it explores the effect of adding nanosilica to the woven composite material. The mechanical properties are optimized based on the direction of the laminates of woven glass fibre with in the polymer. For that purpose, experimental and numerical methods were used. Experimentally, composites of woven glass fibre reinforced thermoset polymer of polyester were fabricated with using hand lay-up method with different orientation of the plies. Also, particles of nanosilica were added to the woven composite material to find its influence on the mechanical properties of the woven composite. Numerical method with using Ansys workbench (ACP) 18.0 was used to model woven composite materials in macro level. Several analyses were carried out on the woven composite materials with different loading direction and laminate orientation. From that, the results were compared to find the highest mechanical properties from different laminate orientation and loading direction.