Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application

During last few years, the interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in polymers has increased dramatically. Natural fibers are not only strong and lightweight but also relatively very cheap. This study examined the potential utilization of jute in the crash energy absorption. A combination...

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Main Author:	Hamza, Sabah Salim
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Language:	English English English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	TP1080-1185 Polymers and polymer manufacture
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spelling	my-uthm-ep.18442021-10-12T04:07:06Z Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application 2021-03 Hamza, Sabah Salim TP1080-1185 Polymers and polymer manufacture During last few years, the interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in polymers has increased dramatically. Natural fibers are not only strong and lightweight but also relatively very cheap. This study examined the potential utilization of jute in the crash energy absorption. A combination of hand layup and vacuum bladder technique was kused to search the influence of utilizing jute fibre on crashworthiness parameters of composite materials. To improve the mechanical properties, jute fiber was hybridized with glass fiber. In this work, there are two main parts of study. Firstly, it is to investigate the effect of cross-sectional shapes, number of layers and temperature treatment on the progressive deformation of jute/epoxy composite tubes. Secondly, the suitable type of geometry was chosen to study the effect of hybrid (jute-glass/epoxy) onto the structural designs. All the tests were undergone quasi-static axial crushing of 10 mm/min. Their peak load (Pmax), mean load (Pm), energy absorption (EA) and specific energy absorption (SEA) were discussed in detail. In the study of types of five geometrical shapes (corrugated, circular, hexagonal, octagonal and decagonal cross sectional) with different number of layers (two, three and four layers). It is found that the corrugated geometric shape with three layers (RHS) gives the best energy absorption (30.92 J/g) in specific energy absorption parameter compared to other geometries used in present study. For the temperature treatment, the results showed that the post-curing by gradual temperature treatment (TT) improved the peak load by decreased with 55% as compared to similar circular specimen without temperature treatment (No TT). From the test, it is found that the substitution of one layer of jute fibre with one layer of glass fibre resulted in an improvement in the crashworthiness parameters than layers jute. The best result was obtained when hybrid jute-glass was used, where the energy absorption and specific energy absorption was improved by about 43% and 31%, respectively. 2021-03 Thesis http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1844/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1844/2/SABAH%20SALIM%20HAMZA%20-%20declaration.pdf text en staffonly http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1844/1/SABAH%20SALIM%20HAMZA%20-%2024p.pdf text en public http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1844/3/SABAH%20SALIM%20HAMZA%20-%20full%20text.pdf text en validuser phd doctoral Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
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description	During last few years, the interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in polymers has increased dramatically. Natural fibers are not only strong and lightweight but also relatively very cheap. This study examined the potential utilization of jute in the crash energy absorption. A combination of hand layup and vacuum bladder technique was kused to search the influence of utilizing jute fibre on crashworthiness parameters of composite materials. To improve the mechanical properties, jute fiber was hybridized with glass fiber. In this work, there are two main parts of study. Firstly, it is to investigate the effect of cross-sectional shapes, number of layers and temperature treatment on the progressive deformation of jute/epoxy composite tubes. Secondly, the suitable type of geometry was chosen to study the effect of hybrid (jute-glass/epoxy) onto the structural designs. All the tests were undergone quasi-static axial crushing of 10 mm/min. Their peak load (Pmax), mean load (Pm), energy absorption (EA) and specific energy absorption (SEA) were discussed in detail. In the study of types of five geometrical shapes (corrugated, circular, hexagonal, octagonal and decagonal cross sectional) with different number of layers (two, three and four layers). It is found that the corrugated geometric shape with three layers (RHS) gives the best energy absorption (30.92 J/g) in specific energy absorption parameter compared to other geometries used in present study. For the temperature treatment, the results showed that the post-curing by gradual temperature treatment (TT) improved the peak load by decreased with 55% as compared to similar circular specimen without temperature treatment (No TT). From the test, it is found that the substitution of one layer of jute fibre with one layer of glass fibre resulted in an improvement in the crashworthiness parameters than layers jute. The best result was obtained when hybrid jute-glass was used, where the energy absorption and specific energy absorption was improved by about 43% and 31%, respectively.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Hamza, Sabah Salim
author_facet	Hamza, Sabah Salim
author_sort	Hamza, Sabah Salim
title	Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
title_short	Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
title_full	Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
title_fullStr	Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
title_full_unstemmed	Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
title_sort	crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application
granting_institution	Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
publishDate	2021
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Crashworthiness capability of jute and glass fibre reinforced epoxy tubes under quasi-static loading condition for automotive application

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