Mechanical Properties of Glass-Carbon Hybrid Materials at Low Temperature

Mechanical properties of carbon-glass hybrid composite materials have been studied in order to check the applicability of hybrid composite materials at low temperature. Four types of interlaminate hybrid composites, which were reinforced by high-modulus carbon and glass or high-tensile carbon and glass cloth, were prepared. Their volume fraction of reinforcement were identical but the geometrical arrangement of the reinforcements was different. Tensile and dynamic flexural elastic modulus were measured and the law of mixture was found to be valid. Tensile tests were also performed and the breaking stress of hybrid materials was confirmed to follow the law of mixture at both room and low temperature. Not only the elastic modulus but the breaking stress of hybrid materials could be improved compared with those of glass fiber reinforced plastics even at low temperature.