Fracture toughness of poly(lactic acid)/ ethylene acrylate copolymer/wood-flour composite ternary blends

2012 ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Kojo A Afrifah ◽  
Laurent M Matuana
BioResources ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Lv ◽  
Haiyan Tan ◽  
Jiyou Gu ◽  
Yanhua Zhang

Polymers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Du ◽  
Youyong Wang ◽  
Xinfeng Xie ◽  
Min Xu ◽  
Yongming Song

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Chen ◽  
Tian-Yi Zhang ◽  
Fan-Long Jin ◽  
Soo-Jin Park

In this study, bio-based poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/polycaprolactone (PCL) blends and PLA/PCL/silicon carbide (SiC) composites were prepared using a solution blending method. The surface of the SiC whiskers was modified using a silane coupling agent. The effects of the PCL and SiC contents on the flexural properties, fracture toughness, morphology of PLA/PCL blends, and PLA/PCL/SiC composites were investigated using several techniques. Both the fracture toughness and flexural strength of PLA increased by the introduction of PCL and were further improved by the formation of SiC whiskers. Fracture surfaces were observed by scanning electron microscopy, which showed that the use of PCL as a reinforcing agent induces plastic deformation in the PLA/PCL blends. The SiC whiskers absorbed external energy because of their good interfacial adhesion with the PLA matrix and through SiC-PLA debonding in the PLA/PCL/SiC composites.


2004 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Dae Park ◽  
Mitsugu Todo ◽  
Kazuo Arakawa

Effect of annealing on the fracture behavior of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) was investigated. Fracture toughness of PLA samples prepared under different annealing conditions was measured under static and dynamic loadings. Microstructure and crack growth behavior were characterized by polarizing microscopy (POM). Crystallinity was determined by DSC analysis. Fracture surface morphology was also studied by scanning electron microscopy. It was shown that the static fracture toughness increased with increase of crystallinity, while the dynamic toughness increased as crystallinity increased. POM exhibited that craze formation played an important role in the fracture mechanism of amorphous samples. Macroscopic fracture toughness and microscopic crack growth mechanism were correlated on the basis of these experimental results, and effect of annealing on the toughness and mechanism were discussed.


Holzforschung ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ru Liu ◽  
Shupin Luo ◽  
Jinzhen Cao ◽  
Yu Chen

Abstract Wood flour/polylactic acid (WF/PLA) composites were produced with a WF content of 50% based on three types of waterborne polyacrylate (PA) emulsions including a PA homopolymer emulsion and two types of silane-PA copolymer emulsions as coupling agents. Two silanes were in focus, namely, γ-methacryloxypropyl- trimethoxysilane (silane-1) and vinyltrimethoxysilane (silane-2). The emulsions and the modified WFs were characterized, and the effects were investigated in terms of emulsion type and their loading levels on the mechanical properties of WF/PLA composites. (1) Both types of silanes could be successfully copolymerized with PA to form stable emulsions. (2) With increasing PA loading, the mechanical properties (except for flexural modulus) of the composites increased at first before reaching the maximum values at 4% PA loading and then the properties worsened. However, these values were larger than those of pure composites, especially in cases when PA-silane emulsions were applied. (3) PA modified with silane-1 showed the best coupling effect among all the three PA emulsions. The results can be interpreted that PA emulsions are effective coupling agents for the preparation of high-performance WPCs.


2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (14) ◽  
pp. 6058-6066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongzhi Liu ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Greg Estep ◽  
Jinwen Zhang

2017 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Mazzanti ◽  
Francesco Mollica

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