Advanced fiber-reinforced polymers have emerged as an important class of engineering materials for load-bearing applications with all-round properties for many engineering and social applications. A designer can use the anisotropy produced by building up a laminate from plies with a properly selected fiber—resin combination and orientation to meet the performance requirements. The design procedure of nongeodesic filament-wound composite pressure vessels requires well determined available surface friction values between the applied fiber and the supporting surface. In this article, the variations in available surface friction with respect to time on a hoop substrate of cylindrical mandrels are presented. A correlation between the surface friction and the tackiness is also developed. Several experiments are conducted corresponding to different dimensions of mandrels by varying initial angles of winding. In addition, the machine-related process parameters like fiber speed, roving tension, roving dimensions, and wet versus dry (different substrates) winding are considered in this study. Experiments are conducted to determine tackiness of the material and its variation with respect to time. The results indicate that available surface friction on the hoop substrate and the tackiness varies along with the time. On the other hand, the influence of fiber speed, roving tension, and fiber material is negligible. Based on the experimental investigations, a composite pressure vessel is designed and developed. Hydraulic test is performed on the composite pressure vessel till the burst pressure.
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