Fabrication technologies and mechanical properties of composite foam sandwich structure with a reinforcement between face sheets and core

doi:10.19936/j.cnki.2096-8000.20210728.017

Abstract

Abstract: Lightweight structure is an eternal theme in the development of aerospace, vehicles, ships and other fields. Composite foam sandwich panels are an important structural form in lightweight structures. Generally, high-strength, high-modulus composites panels were used as the face sheets and lightweight porous foam were used as the sandwich cores in the middle. However, the failure of debonding between the face sheets and foam core of the sandwich structure has become the essence of its engineering application. This paper summarizes the latest researches about composite foam sandwich structure with a reinforcement between face sheets and core in terms of design, fabrication and mechanical properties, focusing on the reinforcement methods of stitching, tufting and Z-pin about design and preparation process. The improvements of mechanical performance after the reinforcement between the face sheets and core is characterized from comparisons of the experimental results between the foam sandwich structures with and without reinforcement.

Key words: foam sandwich structures, composites, stitching, tufting, Z-pin

CLC Number:

TB332

DU Yun-tong, XIONG Jian, ZHANG Rui, LIU Hui-bin, ZHANG Chao, ZHU Ye, ZHONG Hai-gang, WANG Ji-hui, LI Xu. Fabrication technologies and mechanical properties of composite foam sandwich structure with a reinforcement between face sheets and core[J]. COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2021, 0(7): 111-120.

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