PSI - Issue 41

Alok K. Srivastava et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 41 (2022) 241–247 Alok K. Srivastava et al. / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000–000

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improved adhesion and mechanical interlocking among the GNPs, carbon fiber and the epoxy.

Fig. 2. Interphase characterization: SEM along with EDS (a) Pristine, (b) 0.2GNP, (c) 0.4GNP; SEM images were taken from cross-section of the laminate where fiber axis is out of plane; EDS was used to evaluate the carbon element linear map starting from fiber and ending at epoxy rich region

Fig. 3. Average interfacial distance of different laminates (according to carbon elemental distribution for eight acquisitions for each condition)