Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

DOI

10.1002/pc.27230

Publication Title

Polymer Composites

Volume

44

Issue

4

Pages

2122-2137

Abstract

Prepreg platelet molding compound (PPMC) can be used to create structural grade material with a heterogeneous mesoscale morphology. The present work considered various platelet lengths of the prepreg system IM7/8552 to study the effect of platelet length on the flexural behavior of PPMC composite. A progressive failure finite-element analysis was used to understand competing failure modes in PPMC with the different platelet length. The interlaminar and in-plane damage mechanisms were employed to describe complex failure modes within the mesostructure of PPMCs. Experimental results of the flexural tests of the PPMC with different platelet length sizes were used to validate the modeling prediction. The experimental and modeling results revealed complex behavior of the flexural mechanical properties (modulus and strength) on the platelet length. The experimental results indicate that PPMC composites processed with a plate length of 12.7 mm have a higher flexural modulus and strength than 25.4 and 6.35 mm. The platelet length effect on the flexural mechanical behavior was attributed to interactions between various damage mechanisms and the stochastic fiber orientation distribution variability in the material.

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© 2023 The Authors. Polymer Composites published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Plastics Engineers.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Data Availability

Article States: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Original Publication Citation

Sattar, S., Laredo, B. B., Kravchenko, S. G., & Kravchenko, O. G. (2023). Effect of platelet length and stochastic morphology on flexural behavior of prepreg platelet molded composites. Polymer Composites, 44(4), 2122-2137. https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.27230

ORCID

0000-0001-5175-8696 (Sattar)

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