TY - JOUR

T1 - Concepts towards bio-inspired multilayered polymer-composites

AU - Wiener, Johannes

AU - Arbeiter, Florian

AU - Pinter, Gerald Gerhard

N1 - Funding Information: Financial support by the Austrian Funding Agency (FFG) within the scope of grant agreement 858562 (acronym i‘B omimicPolymers’) is greatly acknowledged. Special thanks go to Prof. Otmar oK lednik for most fruitful discussions and his insights in elastic plastic fracture mechanics. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023/7/21

Y1 - 2023/7/21

N2 - Many materials found in nature show extraordinary mechanical properties, that combine high stiffness with toughness and flaw tolerance. The resilience against damage originates from intricate microstructures, which hinder crack growth. Within this contribution, strategies were explored to replicate the mechanisms found in a type of deep-sea sponge. Guidelines were deduced in order to transfer these concepts to engineering materials. In a first approach, the sponge structure was replicated using microlayer composites of a reinforced matrix and soft interlayers (ILs). Results showed, that matrix layers in this type of architecture needed to be smaller than he inherent defect size in order to maximize the toughness gain. However, despite large improvements in impact strength (factor 4.5), stiffness also suffered severe reductions of up to 90% due to the soft interlayers. Alternatively, fewer but larger layers can be used in multilayer composites. Such structures could achieve increased toughness by a factor of 2.81 while also preserving stiffness. Ultimately, the requirements regarding material composition and layer architecture for effective multilayer structures are summarized.

AB - Many materials found in nature show extraordinary mechanical properties, that combine high stiffness with toughness and flaw tolerance. The resilience against damage originates from intricate microstructures, which hinder crack growth. Within this contribution, strategies were explored to replicate the mechanisms found in a type of deep-sea sponge. Guidelines were deduced in order to transfer these concepts to engineering materials. In a first approach, the sponge structure was replicated using microlayer composites of a reinforced matrix and soft interlayers (ILs). Results showed, that matrix layers in this type of architecture needed to be smaller than he inherent defect size in order to maximize the toughness gain. However, despite large improvements in impact strength (factor 4.5), stiffness also suffered severe reductions of up to 90% due to the soft interlayers. Alternatively, fewer but larger layers can be used in multilayer composites. Such structures could achieve increased toughness by a factor of 2.81 while also preserving stiffness. Ultimately, the requirements regarding material composition and layer architecture for effective multilayer structures are summarized.

KW - biomimetics

KW - fracture mechanics

KW - multilayer composites

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U2 - 10.1016/j.prostr.2023.07.018

DO - 10.1016/j.prostr.2023.07.018

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85171992954

VL - 2023

SP - 253

EP - 260

JO - Procedia Structural Integrity

JF - Procedia Structural Integrity

SN - 2452-3216

IS - 47

ER -