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The objective of this research is to investigate the performances of the carbon-basalt/epoxy hybrid composites under flexural loading. In this work, the hybrid composites were manufactured by the vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process. The variations of flexural strength and modulus of the hybrid composite according to the number of basalt fabric were investigated, and we obtained the expression to calculate their mechanical properties. In the study of flexural properties for the hybrid composites with different stacking sequence of the reinforcements, we knew that their properties strongly depend on the reinforcing position of carbon and basalt fabric.
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I. D. G. Ary Subagia received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia in 1994 and the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Institute of Technology of Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya (ITS), Indonesia in 2004. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer at Udayana University, Indonesia and then went to Chonbuk National University as a Ph.D. student under an Indonesian Government Scholarship grant from 2009 until the present. His research interests include the design, fabrication and application of composite materials particularly basalt and carbon based composite laminates via a vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding process.
Yonjig Kim is a Professor of the Division of Mechanical Design Engineering and Advanced Wind Power System Research Institute at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju, Korea. He received his B.S, M.S. and Ph.D degrees in mechanical engineering from Chonbuk National University in 1983, 1985, and 1993, respectively. He is the author or co-author in a number of scientific articles in conferences and refereed journals. His major area of studies is material strength and fracture analysis of the fiber reinforced plastic. Recently his researches have been focused on fracture properties and mechanisms of hybrid composites.
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Ary Subagia, I.D.G., Kim, Y. A study on flexural properties of carbon-basalt/epoxy hybrid composites. J Mech Sci Technol 27, 987–992 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-013-0209-5
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