Environmental effects on pin-loaded laminated composites

The aim of this study was to study the effect of the sea water on the bearing strength behavior of the glass-epoxy laminated composite. The ratio of the edge distance to the pin diameter, and the ratio of the specimen width to the pin diameter (W/D) were systematically varied during experiments. The ratio of the edge distance to the pin diameter were changed from one to five and the ratio of the specimen width to the pin diameter were selected as three and four for this study. The hole of the plate is subjected to a traction force by a pin.For this study, layered composite materials were manufactured, at İzoreel firm, at one hundred and twenty degree Celsius and under two hundred and fifty kilo Pascal pressure. Two different stacking sequences were choosen. One of them was produced at zero degrees orientation angle of fiber to obtain the mechanical properties of the laminated composite material. The mechanical properties of the laminated composite material were obtained from standard tests by absorping natural water and sea water. Second one was of stacking sequence zero degrees and ninety degrees multiply three with the symmetric of them to investigate the effects of sea water on the bearing strength behavior of the laminated composite.Failure modes and maximum failure loads of the specimens are found in experimental study. Experimental study includes one, three, six and nine month periods for absorption of sea water into glass fiber-epoxy composites. So the specimens kept into sea water one, three, six, and nine month periods. For every period, failure modes and maximum failure loads of the specimens are found in experimental study.