Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Negash Alemu

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• Research Article
  Study on the Mechanical Characterization of Composite Materials for Automotive Wheel Application
  Author(s): Eneyw Gardie and Negash AlemuEneyw Gardie and Negash Alemu
  
  Nowadays the development of using fiber-reinforced polymer composites in the field of aviation, defense, automotive, and marine industry is growing due to their lower density as compared with conventional materials. In the automotive industry, the requirements of reduction of weight and fuel consumption have become an essential study without losing any mechanical strength. Fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials are an alternative automotive wheel materials having outstanding mechanical properties via lower density, high fatigue resistance, flexibility of design, stability of dimension, better resistance of corrosion, the resistance of high temperature, high mechanical strength and light in weight, etc. To determine the mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced carbon epoxy composite material using quasi-isotropic orientation having [45/0/0/0/0/-45/90/90/90/90.. Read More»
  

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