Electrical Heating Properties of Carbon Fabric/Green Epoxy Composites Filled with Fly Ash
Date
2019
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TEXTILE BIOENGINEERING & INFORMATICS SOCIETY LTD, TBIS 2010 SECRETARIAT MN104, HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIV, HONG KONG SAR, 0000, PEOPLES R CHINA
Abstract
This paper investigates the joule heating behavior and electrical property of the carbon fabric/green epoxy composite laminates filled with various concentrations of unmilled fly ash and milled fly ash. The infrared camera was used to record the change in surface temperature of composites over a period of time (i.e. from 0 to 240 sec) by varying the voltage from 0 to 10 V. The results show that the composite containing 0.5% fly ash exhibited the maximum temperature under different applied voltages. The maximum temperatures of epoxy/carbon composites could be finely tuned by controlling the concentrations of fly ash fillers as well as the applied voltage. When a certain voltage was applied to the composite, the surface composite temperature reached the maximum and became stable at a time shorter than 120s. In addition, the milled fly ash filled epoxy/carbon composites were found to reveal improvement in electrical heating performance and structural stability over the unmilled fly ash filled composites.
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Ohmic Heating, Fly Ash, Green Epoxy, Carbon Fabric, Composite Laminates