Research Information System
Routledge, London/New York , Florida, 2022
The necessity to increase structural efficiency
unceasingly continues based on the technological developments in the material
universe. In this respect, the sandwich materials have emerged as structural
members in many engineering fields to increase stiffness with reduced weight.
However, while the sandwiches constructed by the lightweight and stiff
materials provide better load-bearing capacities, their damage behavior might worsen
and catastrophic failures may occur during operation. To overcome such
drawbacks, some researchers have put effort into hybrid material designs in
sandwich applications. The wire mesh sheets, in the porous form, provide better
hybridization and can contribute to the mechanical properties of the hybrid
composite structures by improving the adhesion between laminates and conduct
bridging effect. In this chapter, the significance of the wire mesh sheets
embedded into composites was revealed, and the effects of them stacked within
the fiber-reinforced composites were evaluated on the flexural behavior of the
polymer foam core sandwiches. It has been observed that wire mesh hybridization
enhanced the failure behavior of the sandwiches by increasing the flexural
stiffness, load carrying capacity and eliminating the sudden force drops which
is currently seen for polymer foam core sandwiches with fiber- reinforced face
sheets.