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  • Doctoral Thesis
    Effects of Fiber Discontinuity in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2024) Kılıçoğlu, Ahmet Süha; Tanoğlu, Metin
    Bu tez, cam elyaf takviyeli kompozit plakaların mekanik davranışları üzerindeki yapısal süreksizliklerin etkisini araştırmaktadır. Bu süreksizlikler, kompozit mikro yapısındaki geometrik kısıtlamalar nedeniyle katmanlar arası (inter-ply) ve katman içi (intra-ply) olarak sınıflandırılmıştır. Süreksizlikler kürleme öncesi ilave edilmiştir. İlk olarak, malzeme özellikleri kupon seviyesinde testlerle belirlenmiştir. Daha sonra, bilgisayarlı sayısal kontrol kesimi ve manuel uygulama ile katman içi süreksizlikler oluşturularak iki tam ölçekli kompozit numune üretilmiştir. Bu numunelerin mekanik özellikleri, servo-hidrolik aktüatörler kullanılarak üç nokta eğme testi ile değerlendirilmiştir. Deneysel test sonuçları, kesitsel fiber hacim oranı değerlendirilerek CAE analiz tahminleriyle karşılaştırılmış ve yerel süreksizliklerin mikroskopik analizi ile desteklenmiştir. Çalışma, yer değiştirme bölgelerinin reçine açısından zengin alanlara yol açtığını ve ekzotermik kürleme sürecinin reçinenin rengini şeffaftan sarıya dönüştürdüğünü, bunun da mekanik dayanıklılığı azalttığını ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca, fiber süreksizlikleri ve reçine boşlukları, cam elyaf takviyeli polimer (GFRP) kompozit yaprak yayların yapısal bütünlüğünü olumsuz etkilemektedir. Üretim sürecindeki düzensizlikler, malzeme dayanıklılığını ve boşluk doldurma kapasitesini etkilemektedir. Isı transferi ile ilgili sorunların ele alınması, reçine boşluklarını ve ısı kaynaklı çatlakları azaltmak için önemlidir. Bulgular, iç yapısal kusurlar ve reçine boşlukları arasındaki ilişkiyi anlamanın, kiriş tasarımı ve üretim süreçlerini önemli ölçüde iyileştirebileceğini önermektedir. Bu çalışma, mühendislik uygulamalarında kompozit malzemelerin yapısal performansını ve güvenilirliğini optimize etmek için kritik bilgiler sunmaktadır.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    Examination of Fatigue Behaviour of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Güneş, Mehmet Deniz; Tanoğlu, Metin; Tanoğlu, Metin
    This PhD thesis aims to examine the fatigue behavior of sandwich panels fabricated from adhesively bonded aluminum honeycomb core and carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite face sheets. Initially, sandwich panels were manufactured with three different amounts of adhesive in their interface. Static flexural behavior was characterized with three-point bending tests. Load-displacement curves and static flexural failure modes were obtained and utilized to compare the static flexural behavior of fabricated sandwich. Fatigue behavior of sandwich panels were characterized with the three-point bending fatigue tests. Stiffness degradation curves were used to identify the failure cycles of sandwich panels. Fatigue failure modes and S-N curves were obtained to find out the effect of amount of adhesive on fatigue behavior of sandwich panels. The other study within this thesis was made to investigate the effect of core thickness on the fatigue behavior of the sandwich panels based on aluminum honeycomb core and carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite face sheets. Sandwich panels were fabricated by using three different aluminum honeycomb core thickness. Static flexural tests were carried out to determine the static flexural behavior of developed sandwich panels. Load-displacement curves and failure modes were obtained from flexural tests. In addition to this, core shear tests were performed to investigate the core shear strength of the honeycomb cores with different core thickness. Effect of core thickness on fatigue behavior of sandwich panels were characterized with fatigue failure modes and S-N curves. Stiffness degradation method was used to determine the fatigue failure cycles of the sandwich panels.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    The Fabrication of Plasmonic/Photonic Nanostructures in Polymers: Mechanical Sensor Applications
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Topçu, Gökhan; Demir, Mustafa Muammer; Eanes, Mehtap
    Functional polymer nanocomposites offer futuristic properties by the association of inorganic additive micro-/nanostructures into the polymers. With the growing knowledge of the physical fundamentals, stimuli-responsive polymeric composites enable detection of chemical, thermal, and mechanical changes by optical sensors and probes. Since the accurate real-time detection of the change in mechanical loading is vital for construction and industrial fields, the use of colorimetric pressure elements in a static body is important for the prediction of catastrophic failures. In this thesis, strain/pressure responsive colorimetric films were produced. A number of polymer nanocomposite-based mechanical sensors are presented. By transferring the optical activity (coherent reflection and plasmonic coupling) of the additives into various polymeric matrices having different mechanical features, the strain and pressure sensors are developed for practical applications. There are two approaches used for the fabrication of polymeric mechanical sensors: i) PDMS/SiO2 composites, ii) PAAm/Au NP composites. The coherent reflectivity of SiO2 colloidal particle arrays was used to develop strain sensors while controllable localized surface plasmon resonance of Au NPs was employed for pressure sensors. These optical systems were separately associated with viscoelastic and elastic polymeric systems, and sensor properties were discussed.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Type-Iii Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels for High-Pressure Gas Storage
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Kangal, Serkan; Tanoğlu, Metin
    In this thesis, multi-layered composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) for high-pressure gaseous storage were modeled by finite element (FE) method and manufactured by filament winding technique. Two liners with distinct geometries were utilized for containing gas and forming a basis for composite filament winding. 34CrMo4 steel as a load-sharing metallic liner was selected for investigation of hybridization effects. Glass and carbon filaments were overwrapped to the liner with a winding angle of [±11°/90°2]3 to obtain a fully overwrapped composite reinforced vessel with non-identical front and back dome endings. The other type of liner was made of Al 6061-T6 and chosen for containing high-pressure gas such as hydrogen and its better strength-to-weight ratio suitable for onboard applications. Doily layers were implemented to the structure for inducing safe burst modes and increasing the burst pressure of the aluminum-based COPVs. All vessels were hydrostatically loaded with increasing internal pressure up to the burst pressure. The mechanical performances of pressure vessels were investigated by both experimental and numerical approaches. In numerical approaches, FE analysis was performed featuring a simple progressive damage model available in ANSYS for composite section. The metal liners were modeled as elastic-plastic material with two different hardening approaches; bilinear and multilinear hardening. The results from steel based COPV indicate that the FE model provided a good correlation between experimental and numerical strain results for the vessels with indications that the composite interlayer hybridization has positive effects on radial deformation of the COPVs. The constructed model for aluminum-based COPVs was also able to predict experimental burst pressures within a range of 8%.
  • Doctoral Thesis
    Down-Converting Polymer Composites and Their White Light Applications
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Güner, Tuğrul; Demir, Mustafa Muammer
    Down-converting materials, which are luminescent materials that can emit at lower energies than their excitation energies, have been employed in a broad range of application area including phosphor-converted white LEDs, display technologies, solar cells, etc. In general, they can be obtained in the form powder or in dispersion. Therefore, to use them in an application, various methods such as spin coating can be applied or they can be prepared in the form of ceramic plate or polymer composite. In this thesis, we fabricate polymeric composite of some of these down-converting materials to use them in white light applications. In this sense, we have prepared these down-converting materials together with suitable polymers to form polymer/down-converting material composite in order to obtain free-standing film. Among those, polydimethylsiloxane was used in most of our applications especially the ones that involve inorganic downconverting materials. Second, polystyrene was employed to produce electrospun fibers in the case of when organic down-converting materials were used. After obtaining these composites in the form of free-standing film, we have focused specifically their use as color conversion layers over blue or UV LED chip to produce white light. The last part of the thesis describes our future prospects. We think that halide perovskites, which have high quantum yield, low cost, ease of synthesis, and wavelength tunability, can be promising materials in order to be employed as color conversion layer in white light applications. The details of these material systems, and their recent use in phosphorconverted white LED applications were summarized.