The Discontinuous Carbon Fiber Composite: A Review of the Damage Characteristics
Abstract: Discontinuous carbon
fiber composite (DCFC) is one of new low-cost material product form that had
applied for commercial component such as window frames of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Study on DCFC was very challenging since it did not have the same nature
behavior like conventional composite nor isotropic materials. In this work
several studies on damage characteristics of DCFC material were presented. The
damage characteristics of DCFC were investigated while undergoing static and
fatigue loading. In
particular, the damage
mechanisms of DCFC
were also observed through several nondestructive
testing (NDT) methods. The review had shown that the study of DCFC specimen
gives an interesting challenges for the future work to understand its damage
characteristics and the reliability of the NDT method to study the damage of
DCFC material.
Author: Jefri Bale
Journal Code: jptmesingg150001
