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Generate your Abstract and line of thought
using the following keywords:
Composite materials: fiber reinforced plastics, manufacturing, applications.
Mechanical properties: orientation angel, parameters.
Discuss the following topics in correct language
and organized flow of ideas within your introduction:
1. Definition of composite materials, their different types.
2. Advantages of composite materials over conventional material classes.
3. Fiber reinforced plastic systems: matrix, fiber, binder, interphase
and interface, anisotropy and quasi-isotropic.
4. Fiber reinforced plastics manufacturing.
Include a full account for the experimental procedures, giving details
for weights and configurations.
1. Mechanical Testing: tension test to measure the tensile strength.
Required Data
Stres-Strain diagrams for various configurations
UTS for woven, random and linear versus the loading angle
Required Analysis
-Defects in GFRP manufacturing and how to avoid them.
-Allowable % of reinforcement with different fiber forms.
-Isotropic/Quasic-Isotropic/Anisotropic mechanical properties
-Effect of % reinforcement on strength [Bonus: iso-stress and
iso-strain conditions]
--The following sites and books contain useful information and images for several articles that we have encountered in this experiment. Make sure to check them.
Kalpakjian, Serope. Manufacturing Process for Engineering Materials. Addison Wesley, 3rd Ed., 1997.
Smith, William F. . Principles of Materials Science and Engineering. McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed., 1996.