Carbon fibers released from composites by aircraft fires and crashes can cause electrical shorts and consequent equipment damage. This report investigates less vigorous release mechanisms than that previously simulated by explosive burn/blast tests. When AS/3501-6 composites are impacted by various head and weight configurations of a pendulum impactor, less than 0.2 percent by weight of the original sample is released as single fibers. Other fiber release mechanisms studied were air blasts, constant airflow, torsion, flexural, and vibration of composite samples. The full significance of the low single fiber release rates found here is to be evaluated by NASA in their aircraft vulnerability studies. (Author)


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    Title :

    Fiber Release from Impacted Graphite Reinforced Epoxy Composites


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    Publication date :

    1980


    Size :

    71 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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