Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Piezoelectric Nanocomposites: Design, Fabrication and Evaluation for Damage Detection and Energy Harvesting

Yaonan Yu; Yu Shi; Hiroki Kurita; Yu Jia; Zhenjin Wang; Fumio Narita

doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107587

Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Piezoelectric Nanocomposites: Design, Fabrication and Evaluation for Damage Detection and Energy Harvesting

Yaonan Yu, Yu Shi^*, Hiroki Kurita, Yu Jia, Zhenjin Wang, Fumio Narita

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Abstract

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) can be used in aging infrastructures as a reinforcement because of their excellent mechanical properties, and they can also be used in the support maintenance and repair work of these structures. However, the development of CFRPs as reinforcement while achieving self-powered damage detection is still challenging. Herein, a sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticle-filled epoxy (KNN–EP) plate was fabricated and combined with advanced CFRP electrodes. The obtained composites exhibited dramatically enhanced mechanical properties. In addition, CFRP contributed to the energy harvesting output (peak-to-peak output voltage V_pp = 7.25 mV), which was over 600 % higher than that of the KNN–EP plate. Thus, this composite could work as a force sensor for damage detection. In the end-notch bending test, the voltage signals generated by CFRP/KNN–EP composite accurately corresponded to the crack growth, which could provide the real-time crack state and prediction of fracture occurrence. Therefore, this work provided a new strategy for structural enhancement and kinetic energy harvesting, which can be used to detect damage behavior in infrastructures.

Original language	English
Article number	107587
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Volume	172
Early online date	22 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107587
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 22 Apr 2023

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Funding Information:
The authors greatly acknowledge the support of this work by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) under Grant No. 22H00183 and Core-to-Core Program under Grant No. JPJSCCA20200005.

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

Keywords

Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers Electrode
Damage Detection
End-Notched Flexure
Piezoelectricity

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