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I can delaminate the part

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By andy47 - 12/11/2017 4:20:35 PM

Hi, I made a part from carbon fiber, Kevlar and Lantor Soric using resin infusion and let it cure for a week. To test the strength, I broke the part and then I noticed that I can tear off Kevlar from carbon fiber just by hand. Is it normal?



Another weird thing I noticed is that parts I made by resin infusion are lighter, but also easier to break than parts made by hand layup using the same number of layers.

By andy47 - 12/11/2017 5:21:50 PM

Warren (Staff) - 12/11/2017 4:52:35 PM
The parts have less resin than wetlay so you are not ripping through so much resin when you try to delaminate - remember at this point the material has already failed, so you are just ripping apart the resin, of which there is slightly less.

In terms of "easier to break" ,  In a scientific approach rather than hammer whacking, I would expect slightly better performance with a resin infused part as the fibres are generally better consolidated and compressed tightly together.   That assumes all other variables are equal.

Thanks for the explanation. I am using the hammer approach to test how my autonomous boat will handle impacts (e.g. rocks, icebergs, shark teeth). I realized I should use a thicker Kevlar as the outer layer.