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Master Thesis Investigating the Filament Wound Hybrid Cylindrical Structures With Enhanced Thermal Properties by Numerical Analysis(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Özkan, Mert; Tanoğlu, MetinThe filament winding method is a composite production technique found at the beginning of the 20th century. The technique has been used in different fields since the day it was introduced in literature. Today, with the developments in the continuous fiber structure used in this technique and the development of carbon technology, filament-wound composites are widely used in the automotive, aerospace, and defense industries. In this study, the finite element method was used to model filament-wound composite cylinders. It was wanted to observe the matrix effect of the composite structure numerically and criticize experimentally produced composites. Even though the current studies work on a hybridized composite structure with respect to the fiber, this study tried to find the hybridized matrix effect by numerical analysis. For this purpose, in this study, the finite element program ANSYS was used. In order to make realistic calculations with ANSYS, material data were observed from composite plates. Finite element models created with the obtained data were compared with the experimental results. The analysis results were observed with the help of the first-ply failure theory. In addition, since the pattern representations from the winding poles cannot be displayed in ANSYS, the pattern effect was ignored, and comparison were made with the assumption of a full layer at given angles. As a result of all this study, although there were differences between experimental and finite element methods' models in homogeneity and pattern, methods' comparisons gave consistent and close results.Master Thesis Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Composite Aerospace Structures Developed by Laser Surface Treatment(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Nuhoğlu, Kaan; Tanoğlu, MetinAmong the various joining techniques, adhesive bonding is a feasible alternative to mechanical fasteners to prevent incisions and discontinuity on aerospace structures. The performance of the bonded structures highly depends on the adhesion strength, which is directly related to the condition of the bonding surface. It is for this that laser surface treatment, a recently developing technique to improve bonding performance, has become suited for CFRP structures. Yet, predicting the failure strength and mechanism is vital for designing primary aircraft structures involving adhesively bonded composite structures. The scope of this paper consists of the validation and evaluation of adhesive bonding behavior in the case of joining between laser surface-treated CFRP structures, in particular, components of an aircraft wing box. To this end, both the experiment and numerical investigations of the secondary bonded coupons were examined. This study, in other words, includes experimentally revealing the bonding behavior through coupon and element-level mechanical test setups, as well as the simulation of those structures in the computer environment by performing FEA to predict the failure load and damage growth. In this regard, besides observing the effects of the laser surface treatment on the pure and mix-mode behaviors by means of the DCB, ENF, SLJ, and SSJ tests, identical specimens were numerically analyzed by utilizing macro-scale 2D and 3D models, employing the CZM technique. Meanwhile, a novel characterization study and the resulting TSL parameter identification method were achieved for an accurate numerical analysis. Eventually, in addition to the application methodology, the capabilities and appropriateness of the presented FEA method were discussed, comparing experimental and numerical results.Master Thesis Development and Experimental Characterization of Filament Wound Hybrid Cylindrical Structures With Enhanced Thermal Properties(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Özarslan, Dora; Tanoğlu, MetinComposite tube components have key roles in many industrial applications, such as pipelines, drive shafts, airplane fuselages, and offshore construction components. Filament winding technology has enabled precise tailoring and manufacturing processes, allowing for a variety of applications to be manufactured with advanced machinery. In this study, the aim was to enhance the thermal properties without any significant change in the mechanical properties. Therefore, the samples were manufactured as carbon fiber composite tubes with different resin layer configurations by utilizing filament winding technology. The fiber orientation was set to a 55° winding angle with a 5/3 pattern to wrap over a 58.8 mm diameter mandrel as a 5-layer stacking. Due to difficulties in manufacturing different stacked groups of phenolin resin layers, only two groups (one with a 5-layer carbon epoxy resin group and one with a 4-layer carbon epoxy resin with 1 outer layer of carbon phenolin resin group) were successfully manufactured and thus tested. For each group, with dimensions of ±62.7 mm outer diameter and ±1.95 mm thickness with an 800 mm length, two composite tubes were manufactured. Before the test procedures, the homogeneity and quality of the groups were analyzed. For the observation of properties, mechanical and thermal tests were conducted: Apparent hoop tensile, radial compression, 3-point bending, Flammability, Thermogravimetric analysis, Differential scanning calorimeter, Thermal conductivity. The tests were proceeded according to their standards. The results and failure behaviors demonstrate that, with the replacement of the outer layer with phenolin resin, no significant improvement or drawback was observed compared to its fully epoxy resin counterpart.Master Thesis A Numerical Approach for Optimization of Curing Kinetics of Composite Material(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Öz, Murat; Tanoğlu, GamzeIn this thesis, we introduced a new method which is called the GMN (Gamze, Murat, Neslişah) algorithm. GMN algorithm determines the pre-exponential and activation energy of the curing process. This algorithm include tanh fitting for the measured conversion values via least squares minimization technique and linear fitting for the kinetic parameters. Experimentally determined differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) data sets for an epoxy resin functionalized by single wall carbon nanotubes are used for the verification of the proposed method. In computational part, in order to denote the effectiveness of the new proposed method, the results are also compared with the methods reported in the literature. To sum up, we have shown that the GMN algorithm provides a good match with the experimental data for all kinetic parameters.Master Thesis Stacking Sequences Optimization of Laminated Composites for Maximum Buckling Strength by Stochastic Search Methods(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Adabaşı, Gökay; Artem, Hatice SeçilBased on materials developed and made available by humans, there are materials that will serve their purpose. Using lighter materials, especially in the field of aviation and space, significantly reduces the costs. However, lightness is not the only feature required in materials. In addition, the physical and mechanical properties of the materials must be at the desired level. Knowing the buckling load capacity of composite materials, which are widely used, is also very important in determining the material properties. Accordingly, an important focus of this thesis is to examine the behavior of different materials against the same loading; the other is to examine the increase in the critical buckling load factor although they have the same geometric structure. Critical buckling load factor is considered when performing the buckling analysis. The mechanical behavior of composite materials used by considering the factors of critical buckling load factor has been investigated and discussed. Different optimization methods have been used while making the optimum design of different composite materials with 48 and 64 layers in total. The verification of mechanical properties of materials was made with the help of coding. Subsequently, the referenced articles were verified to prove the accuracy of this code. Optimization was carried out by using material properties information from reference articles and verifying the code. As a result, considering the buckling strength of different layered composite materials, it has been found that the optimum designs depend on the load, load ratio, and plate aspect ratio.Master Thesis Development of Fiber Reinforced Cylindrical Composite Structures by Filament Winding Technique(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Aydın, Mustafa; Tanoğlu, MetinFiber reinforced composite structures with superior properties are used for cylindrical structure systems in many application areas nowadays. The major aim of this thesis is development of filament wound composite cylindrical structures with various fiber types on different ply sequence and investigate their mechanical properties. For this purpose, 4 layered glass, carbon and glass/carbon hybrid fiber reinforced cylindrical structures were manufactured with 55 degree winding angle by utilizing filament winding technique. Produced 6 different composite structures have 1 m length and 60 mm inner diameter. Glass/carbon fiber reinforced systems were developed to reduce the cost by reducing carbon fiber usage. Apparent hoop tensile strength and radial compression tests were applied to the manufactured composite structures. In addition to these studies, two different composite plate with glass fiber and carbon fiber reinforcements were produced by filament winding to investigate glass transition temperature. These plates were manufactured with 4 layered by using the same fiber and matrix as used in the previous tube production. Dynamic mechanical analysis was performed with samples which is sectioned from plates to obtain glass transition temperature. Consequently, apparent hoop tensile strength test results showed that hoop strength of glass fiber reinforced cylindrical structures can be improved significantly by hybridization. Based on the radial compression test results, deflection of the structures decreases by hybridizationMaster Thesis Fabrication of Colloidal Photonic Crystals Via Langmuir Blodgett Technique and Their Integration of Polymer Matrix(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) İnci, Ezgi; Demir, Mustafa Muammer; Varlıklı, CananColloidal films have potential uses in various fields such as photonics, electronics, sensors, membrane filters, and surface devices owing to their unique optical properties. Photonic crystals composed of uniform diameter colloidal silica particles have been arranged in a periodic structure by taking inspiration from nature. The periodic structure of silica particles has physical interaction with light in a visible range. This special interaction is known as structural coloration. The close-packed monolayers and multilayers of colloidal silica particles in large area can be produced by using Langmuir Blodgett method. The integration of these photonic films with transparent polymer matrices having an elastomer feature provides for their use in optical sensor applications. In this thesis, we examined the fabrication of mechano-sensitive nanostructured films based on colloidal particles. Silica colloidal particles were synthesized at different sizes by using Stöber Process. Langmuir-Blodgett deposition was used to create three-layer of photonic crystal films with different particle diameters. For this purpose, various substrates were examined for the Langmuir Blodgett deposition process before starting the coating. The coated silica particles on the glass substrate were then embedded in an elastomeric transparent matrix. The generation of structural coloration after stretching was examined in manufactured elastomer films. In accordance with this purpose, various polymers such as acrylates and siloxanes with elastomer properties have been used. The structural characterization of these composite films and their optical properties were summarized in this thesis.Master Thesis Synthesis of Ni and Zn Based Organic Frameworks as Photocatalyst(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Dikmen, Merve; Çakıcıoğlu Özkan, Seher FehimeNickel (Ni) and zinc (Zn) based organic frameworks were synthesized on the synthetic zeolite (5A and 13X), natural zeolite mineral clinoptilolite, -Alumina. Initially the zeolite surface was modified or seeded with metal organic framework (MOF). MOF-zeolite composite materials were characterized with XRD, SEM and ATR-IR to understand whether surface processes was achieved successfully or not. Additionally, band gap energies were evaluated to understand these composite materials were used as photocatalyst. Surface modification with APTES was not affect surface of the zeolites. In spite of that seeding created a layer on the surface of zeolite. Nickel based organic framework was coated onto the surface of modified 5A surface. Hydrothermal ZIF8 (ZIF8(1)) and solvothermal ZIF8 (ZIF8(2)) were synthesized successfully as MOF crystals. Besides ZIF8(2) was coated onto the surface of natural zeolite. Additionally, ZIF8/CuBTC sample were synthesized, seeded and coated onto the surface of natural zeolite. Band gap energies of the MOFs and composite materials were calculated with Tauc plot. Results showed that UV light can be used as light source for photocatalytic reactions of these photocatalysts. Also increasing photocatalyst amount increased dye degredation under UV light.Master Thesis Stacking Sequence Optimization and Modeling of Laminated Composite Plates for Free Vibration(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Hasanoğlu, Emre Azim; Artem, Hatice SeçilComposite materials, especially fiber reinforced composites, have been extensively used in various engineering fields such as automotive, aerospace, aircrafts, defense, marine and so on due to having their high specific strength to weight and stiffness to weight ratios. In these last years, vibration problem has become more and more important in the structures where thin plates are used. Therefore, free vibration characteristics of composite structures under the influence of dynamic forces should be determined in the design process. Accordingly, in this thesis, optimum designs, which maximize the natural frequencies of laminated composite plate, are investigated by using hybrid algorithm combining the genetic algorithm (GA) and generalized pattern search algorihm (GPSA). Composite plates made of graphite/epoxy have been considered and assumed to be symmetric with continuous fiber angles in the laminate sequences. The natural frequency of plates is obtained bu using the Rayleigh Ritz method analytically. Free vibration equation is taken as objective function and fiber orientation angles are chosen as design variables. The natural frequency is maximized for various boundary conditions, aspect ratios, number of ply and material properties. The optimum designs obtained are verified by finite element method, and mode shapes of laminated composite plates are presented. A comparison between continuous and conventional (laminate in which the orientation angles are limited to the conventional orientations) designs is performed in order to show the reliability of continuous plates. As a results, it is observed that material properties, boundary conditions and dimensions of composite plates play important role on vibration behavior of composite plates. On the other hand, the natural frequencies and the optimum fiber oriantation angles are not affected from the change of number of plies.Master Thesis Analysis and Implementation of Optical Fiber Sensors for Process Monitoring of Composite Materials(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Yılmaz, Anıl; Yüksel Aldoğan, Kıvılcım; Yüksel Aldoğan, KıvılcımThe use of composite materials in many industrial applications and structures under high stress (airplane wings, unmanned air vehicles, wind turbines, etc.) has been exponentially growing thanks to their lightweight, superior strength, durability, and corrosion resistance. However, the unique mechanical properties of composite materials cannot be fully exploited without monitoring them when material is placed under constraints. It is essential to monitor their behavior not only in the field but also during manufacturing process to ensure the high quality of manufactured materials. For this purpose, the use of optical fiber sensing, particularly the embedding of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors into composite materials has been gaining growing popularity thanks to various advantages of FBGs. In this context, the main purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the feasibility of using optical fiber sensors for process monitoring (cure and resin flow) of fiber reinforced thermoset composite materials. The first sensor type studied in the thesis was based on Fresnel reflection. The capability of monitoring the curing profile of liquid matrix (mixture of resin and hardener) has been demonstrated by the way of Fresnel reflection sensor interrogated by Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR). Then, FBG sensors were embedded into composite plates to measure the temperature change during resin injection and cure cycle, as well as determining the residual strain inside the material. In spite of the popularity of using FBG sensors, most recent researches clearly prove that there is still a lack of technical maturity in real life applications in interrogating embedded FBGs for strain measurements. There is still room for new sensing approaches. In the last part of the thesis, we proposed a novel method to interrogate fiber cavity ring-down (CRD) loop by using OTDR which makes this sensing approach more practical and cheaper than the conventional techniques. Thanks to these advantages, our proposed interrogation method can be implemented for strain measurements inside the composite materials as an alternative to the FBG sensors.
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