Experimental characterization of unidirectional carbon – Carbon composite laminate

Abstract

Advanced polymeric Composites have wide applications in various industrial sectors of Missile System, Automobile, and Space Structures have been sound prominent and endlessly receiving the wide awareness for many industries. The structural engineer desires to be eminent with the belongings of the composite material structures. The performance of fiber reinforced polymeric composite material beneath dynamic load plays a crucial task in designing such structures. In the recent work, an attempt is made to determine optimum fiber angle and the behavior of the advanced polymeric composite material, i.e., Carbon – Carbon Composites under Tensile and Compressive loads. Mechanical properties, viz., Compressive and Tensile strength are determined by using experimentation method. Hand layup technique is used for fabricating the laminates. FE Analysis (Ansys) is carried out on various fiber angles likely be [0°-90°], [30°], [45°], [60°] to validate the results which is obtained from experimentation.