Dataset on mechanical properties of damaged fibre composite laminates with drilled vent-holes for resin-injection repair procedure

W L Lai; H Saeedipour; K L Goh

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103912

Dataset on mechanical properties of damaged fibre composite laminates with drilled vent-holes for resin-injection repair procedure

Data Brief. 2019 Apr 11:24:103912. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103912. eCollection 2019 Jun.

Authors

W L Lai^{1

2}, H Saeedipour³, K L Goh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Newcastle Research & Innovation Institute (NewRIIS), 80 Jurong East Street 21, #05-04, 609607 Singapore.
² Newcastle University, Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
³ Republic Polytechnic, School of Engineering, Singapore.

Abstract

This dataset comprises the mechanical properties of pristine and barely visible impact damaged (BVID) carbon fibre reinforced epoxy composite (CFRP) laminates. The mechanical dataset describes the compressive strength, compressive strain at fracture, strain energy density for resilience and strain energy density to fracture of the CFRP laminates with different number of vent holes (namely 4, 5 and 6) in the respective pristine and BVID states. The vent holes were created in the laminate to facilitate the resin-injection repair process. The mechanical properties were determined from in-plane compression test of the CFRP laminates. Structure-related dataset, namely infrared thermographs and ultrasonic C-scan images of BVID and other damage features induced by mechanical drilling, are included for completeness.