Carbon Fibers Composite technologies Researches

Investigation of Mechanical Properties

of Filament Wound Unidirectional
Basalt Fiber Reinforced Polymers for
Automotive and Pressure Vessel
Application
• 02.11.2018  364  1 minute read

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Car manufacturers worldwide try to lower their fleet consumption

and to fulfill new challenging environmental regulations. Some of
the most promising candidates to lower CO2 emissions are natural
gas and fuel cell driven cars.

For these purposes

compressed natural The main activity of Global Basalt
gas (CNG) and Engineering LLC is creation of
effective productions on release of
hydrogen are stored continuous basalt fiber (СBF) with
in filament wound technologies of the last generation and
high pressure composites on the basis of СBF (Basalt
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
vessels. One of the as BFRP).
main driving forces
in current pressure
vessel research and
development is cost reduction. Major cost factor of pressure
vessels is the fiber material, because of the use of high
performance carbon fibers and the required wall thicknesses due
to high pressure needed to store sufficient amount of CNG or
hydrogen.

So many researchers focus on new materials for filament winding

of pressure vessels in order to lower manufacturing costs. During
the last years basalt fibers came into focus of researchers and
composite manufacturers as a cost competitive reinforcement
material.

Combining those two trends, investigations on mechanical

properties of basalt fibers and unidirectional basalt fiber
reinforced epoxy composites were performed and compared with
state of the art fibers and polymer composites. The research
included tensile testing of impregnated roving test specimens,
tensile evaluation of unidirectional filament wound flat specimens,
3-point-bending tests and short beam shear tests.

Unidirectional fiber composite specimens were manufactured by

filament winding on a flat specimen winding tool with an epoxy
matrix. Results show superior mechanical properties of basalt
composites compared to E-glass-epoxy samples. Tensile strength
and stiffness are between E-glass and S-glass-epoxy composites,
but inferior compared to carbon-HT-composites. At present
further investigations are conducted on tensile fatigue properties,
Charpy impact properties and hoop tensile strength by split disk
method for basalt fiber and hybrid-fiber polymers.

Goal is a complete mechanical characterization of basalt fibers

and basalt fiber polymer composites in order to build cost
competitive pressure vessels made of basalt fibers or a
basalt/carbon fiber hybrid.

Eduard Kessler¹, Rainer Gadow², Patrick Weichand²

1 NuCellSys GmbH, Kirchheim u. Teck, Germany;

2 Institute for Manufacturing Technologies of Ceramic
Components and Composites (IMTCCC), University of Stuttgart,
Germany.

20th International Conference on Composite Materials

Copenhagen, 19-24th July 2015

paper-3108-1

Companies: Mechanical Properties

Countries: Germany
Industries: Automotive and Road Transportation, General society,
Oil & Gas
Technologies: Filament Winding
Terms: CNG, Cylinders, Filament winding

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