TY - GEN
T1 - Degradation of bending strength and stiffness in glass-fiber-reinforced plastic under repeated raindrop impact
AU - Homma, Hiroomi
AU - Prayogo, Gatot
AU - Kanto, Yasuhiro
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Repeated rain drop impact plausibly brings about a definite damage in airplane surface materials while the airplane flies in rain fall. When the materials are fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), the damage is more serious. However, FRP is a very attractive material to the aircraft, because its specific strength, that is the strength per unit density, is very high as compared with the other materials such as aluminum alloys. This paper investigates the damage mechanism of the glass fiber reinforced plastics subject to repeated rain drop impact and the residual strength after the certain number of the impacts. This experimental result shows that the residual strength decreases significantly after delamination takes place in the FRP.
AB - Repeated rain drop impact plausibly brings about a definite damage in airplane surface materials while the airplane flies in rain fall. When the materials are fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), the damage is more serious. However, FRP is a very attractive material to the aircraft, because its specific strength, that is the strength per unit density, is very high as compared with the other materials such as aluminum alloys. This paper investigates the damage mechanism of the glass fiber reinforced plastics subject to repeated rain drop impact and the residual strength after the certain number of the impacts. This experimental result shows that the residual strength decreases significantly after delamination takes place in the FRP.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0031378591
SN - 0819423238
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SP - 55
EP - 60
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
PB - Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
T2 - Int. Conference on Experimental Mechanics: Advances and Applications
Y2 - 4 December 1996 through 4 December 1996
ER -