Fabrication of hoop-wound glass fiber reinforced plastic cylindrical shells using filament winding machine

Abstract

Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) composites are playing an important role in the commercial industries like aerospace, marine and automotive, due to its notable material properties over metals. Development of these GFRPs for complex structures is really a challenging task owing to its heterogeneous and anisotropic nature. The present work is an attempt to develop an experimental setup to produce Hoop wound GFRP cylindrical shells using filament winding process. A constant mandrel speed of 45 revolutions per minute and glass fiber tension of 20 N is maintained during hoop winding process. The achieved samples had geometry of 140 mm length, 102 mm internal diameter and 2 mm thickness, which can fulfils the ASTM standards of transverse tensile and compressive tests.