Interlaminar resistive heating behavior of ZnO nanorods/woven carbon fiber composites

Abstract

This paper addressed the interlaminar region characterization complying with electrical resistive heating behavior of ZnO/woven carbon fiber laminae reinforced composites. The interlaminar region is composed of ZnO nanostructure arrays embedded on woven carbon fibers interacted with the thermoset vinyl ester resin. The ZnO nanostructure arrays are formed to the nanorods synthesized using hydrothermal process. In order to investigate the electrical resistive heating behavior of the interlaminar region, three different zones have been classified as heating zone, maximum temperature zone, and the cooling zone. The electrical resistive heating temperature was shown effectively at the interlaminar region due to the intrinsic plain weaved carbon fiber multiple junctions as well as the multi-junctions of ZnO nanorods. In room zone, the contact resistance of ZnO/woven carbon fiber laminae reinforced composites was increased as the ZnO molar concentration was became higher from 10mM to 110mM.