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In-Plane Mechanical Characterization of a Kevlar® Composite

Rene Alejandro Canceco-de la Cruz
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Caleb Carreño-Gallardo
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Alberto Diaz Díaz
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Luis Adrian Zuñiga-Aviles
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Gabriel Plascencia-Barrera
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Jose Martin Herrera-Ramirez
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Version 1 : Received: 27 February 2024 / Approved: 27 February 2024 / Online: 28 February 2024 (12:58:26 CET)

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Canceco de la Cruz, R.A.; Carreño Gallardo, C.; Diaz Diaz, A.; Zuñiga Aviles, L.A.; Plascencia Barrera, G.; Herrera Ramirez, J.M. In-Plane Mechanical Characterization of a Kevlar® Composite. Fibers 2024, 12, 38. Canceco de la Cruz, R.A.; Carreño Gallardo, C.; Diaz Diaz, A.; Zuñiga Aviles, L.A.; Plascencia Barrera, G.; Herrera Ramirez, J.M. In-Plane Mechanical Characterization of a Kevlar® Composite. Fibers 2024, 12, 38.

Abstract

Polymer-based composites are widely used in the automotive, security, aeronautical and space industries, to mention a few. This is because of their good mechanical properties, which are similar to those of metals but with the attraction of being lightweight. Kevlar® as a reinforcement is extensively used in the security industry owing to its good ballistic properties. This investigation presents the mechanical characterization based on in-plane quasi-static tensile testing of Kevlar® composite using a universal testing system. The methodology developed for the preparation of coupons is based on pressure, temperature and time. As a result of this work, elastic moduli (EL and ET), Poisson’s ratio (νLT), shear modulus (GLT) and strengths (XT, YT, S) were obtained. It is worth mentioning that there is scarce or no characterization of this material in the literature, and those studies that do characterize it do not present the coupon thermoforming conditions or the reasons of the specimen dimensions (width, length and thickness).

Keywords

Kevlar®; Polymer composite; Mechanical properties; Quasi-static tensile test

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Polymers and Plastics

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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