Abstract
The present paper focuses on the detection of dominant damage mechanisms in tensile loading of laminated composite specimens subjected to low-velocity impact (LVI) using acoustic emission (AE) method. Moreover, the effects of various nanoparticles (NPs) on the tension-after-impact (TAI) strength of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites have been investigated. The hierarchical method was employed to cluster the acoustic emission data and detect the damage mechanisms of the composites. These damage are matrix cracking, fiber–matrix debonding, fiber breakage, and fiber pull-out, the peak frequency ranges of which were obtained to be (100–200), (250–370), (410–530), and (570–650) kHz, respectively. Subsequently, the existence of these mechanisms was verified using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images, and their shares in composite failure under tensile loading were calculated by wavelet transform method. According to the results, the NPs have enhanced the impact strength of the GFRPs by up to 66% reduction in damage index. Furthermore, they have increased TAI strength by up to 39%, claims also supported by the AE analysis.
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