Impact Testing of the Panels Made of Composite Materials Reinforced with Woven Glass Fabric and Wood Flour

In this paper, the mechanical behaviour of thelaminated composite panels reinforced with bothwoven glass fabric and wood flour was investigated,during the low velocity impact test. A drop-weight testdevice was used for this purpose. In order to assessthe response parameters, a block diagram wasdesigned using LabView program. Five rectangularcomposite panels were investigated, simply supportedon all edges. All panels had the same structure ofmaterials: seven layers of glass woven fabric / epoxyresin and oak wood flour as the filler material on theinterface of the layers. The effects of the differentimpact velocities on the mechanical behaviour ofthese composite panels were analyzed.