Creep Age Forming of Fiber Metal Laminates: Effects of Process Time and Temperature and Stacking Sequence of Core Material

Mehdi Safari; Ricardo Alves de Sousa; Fábio Fernandes; Mazaher Salamat-Talab; Arash Abdollahzadeh

doi:10.3390/ma14247881

Creep Age Forming of Fiber Metal Laminates: Effects of Process Time and Temperature and Stacking Sequence of Core Material

Materials (Basel). 2021 Dec 20;14(24):7881. doi: 10.3390/ma14247881.

Authors

Mehdi Safari¹, Ricardo Alves de Sousa², Fábio Fernandes², Mazaher Salamat-Talab¹, Arash Abdollahzadeh¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Arak University of Technology, Arak 38181-8411, Iran.
² Center for Mechanical Technology an Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Campus de Santiago, University of Aveiro, 3810-183 Aveiro, Portugal.

Abstract

Fiber metal laminates (FMLs) are a type of hybrid materials interlacing composites and metals. In the present work, FMLs with aluminum alloy 6061 as the skin and E-glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) as the core material are fabricated and formed by the creep age forming (CAF) process. The effects of time and temperature as the process parameters and thickness and stacking sequences of composites layers as the FML parameters are evaluated on the springback of glass-reinforced aluminum laminates (GLARE) FMLs. After the CAF process, the springback of creep age-formed FMLs is calculated. The results show that the FMLs can be successfully formed with the CAF process by considering appropriate time and temperature. In addition, the stacking sequence of composite layers can affect the springback behavior of FMLs significantly.

Keywords: creep age forming; fiber metal laminate; layout of fibers; temperature; time.