Investigation of Delamination Damage of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Composite Material Drilling with Abrasive Water Jet
Meltem Altin Karatas Hasan GÖKKAYA
AbstractCarbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite materials, among other fiber reinforced materials, exhibit excellent resistance properties against a low specific weight. They have been used in a wide range of contemporary applications particularly in aerospace industry, defense, automotive, machine tools, sports equipment, transportation structures, power generation, oil and gas industry. Various damage mechanisms such as fiber pull-out, fiber break, matrix smearing and delamination damage have been observed in CFRP composite materials in their work. In this study, CFRP composite materials in direction 0º, 45º and 90º were produced by the vacuum bagging method. CFRP composite materials were drilled at different parameters with abrasive water jet (AWJ) machining center. Delamination damage were analyzed.