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Utah State University

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

2023

3-D printing

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Bending Performance And Failure Mechanisms Of Hybrid And Regular Sandwich Composite Structures With 3d Printed Corrugated Cores, S.Z.H. Shah, Khurram Altaf, Juhyeong Lee, Tahir Sharif, Rizwan Saeed Choudhry, S. M. Hussain Sep 2023

Bending Performance And Failure Mechanisms Of Hybrid And Regular Sandwich Composite Structures With 3d Printed Corrugated Cores, S.Z.H. Shah, Khurram Altaf, Juhyeong Lee, Tahir Sharif, Rizwan Saeed Choudhry, S. M. Hussain

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

The effect of core geometry and hybridization on the bending performance and failure mechanisms of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) corrugated sandwich composite structures (SCS) were experimentally investigated using a three-point bend test. The CFRP and GFRP corrugated cores and facesheets were produced using Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and vacuum-assisted infusion processes, respectively. Three types of corrugated SCSs were built: SCSs with different core geometries (circular, square, trapezoidal, sinusoidal, and triangular), hybrid SCSs with different CFRP and GFRP cores and facesheets, and fully 3D-printed CFRP and GFRP SCSs. The corrugated SCS with square core geometry outperformed …