scholarly journals Effect of Diameter of Glass Fibers on Flexural Properties of Fiber-reinforced Composites

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motofumi OBUKURO ◽  
Yutaka TAKAHASHI ◽  
Hiroshi SHIMIZU
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fibers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Flexural Properties ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced

Hemp Fiber Reinforced Composites: Morphological and Mechanical Properties

2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Xing Mei Guo ◽  
Yi Ping Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Composites ◽  
Unsaturated Polyester ◽  
Glass Fibers ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Hemp Fiber ◽  
Plant Fibers ◽  
Natural Plant ◽  
Reinforcing Fillers

The use of natural plant fibers as reinforcing fillers in fiber-polymer composites has drawn much interest in recent years. Natural plant fibers as reinforcing fillers have several advantages over inorganic fillers such as glass fibers; they are abundant, readily available, renewable, inexpensive, biodegradable, of low density, and of high specific strength. Hemp fibers are one of the most attractive natural plant fibers for fiber-reinforced composites because of their exceptional specific stiffness. In this review, we summarize recent progress in developments of the hemp fiber reinforced composites such as hemp fiber reinforced unsaturated polyester (UPE), hemp fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP), hemp fiber reinforced epoxy composites, and so on, illustrate with examples how they work, and discuss their intrinsic fundamentals and optimization designs. We are expecting the review to pave the way for developing fiber-polymer composites with higher strength.

scholarly journals Flexural Properties of Fiber-Reinforced Composites

PAMM ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Haasemann ◽  
Volker Ulbricht
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Flexural Properties ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced

Rheological properties of grafted maleic anhydride based polypropylene composites filled with organoclay and glass fibers

e-Polymers ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Hwan Lee ◽  
Jae Ryoun Youn
Keyword(s):  
Glass Fiber ◽  
Rheological Properties ◽  
Glass Fibers ◽  
Layered Silicate ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Composites ◽  
Reinforced Composites ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Silicate Nanocomposites ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Polypropylene Matrix

AbstractExfoliated polypropylene/layered silicate nanocomposites and chopped glass fiber reinforced composites were prepared by a melt compounding process using maleic anhydride modified polypropylene (PP-g-MAH). The effect of fillers on morphological and rheological properties in melt mixing of polypropylene matrix with compatibilizer was investigated and compared with various measurements. It was observed that polypropylene/layered silicate nanocomposites exhibited remarkable reinforcement compared with the conventional composites filled with glass fibers which were dispersed at micrometer scale. The nanocomposites had larger storage modulus at low frequency region and outstanding strain hardening behavior than those of pure polypropylene or glass fiber reinforced composites. It was shown that glass fiber reinforced composites had lower elastic properties and steady state elongational viscosities than pure polypropylene melt. Contrary to glass fiber reinforced composites, it was confirmed that 3-dimensional network structure due to strong intermolecular bonding between polypropylene matrix and layered silicates affected particular rheological properties of nanocomposites.

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