Particulate Reinforcement of Polyacrylate Elastomers. II. Mechanical Properties

1975 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 830-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Blackley ◽  
M. W. Sheikh

Abstract This paper presents and discusses the mechanical properties of crosslinked poly (ethyl acrylates) containing various amounts of microscopic glass beads. The adhesion between the glass beads and the elastomer matrix was varied by subjecting the beads to different surface treatments. That the adhesion is affected by surface treatment has been demonstrated in two ways: (1) Unfilled elastomer sheets have been cast in contact with glass surfaces which had been treated with the same reagents as the beads. The force required to peel the elastomer from the glass was then measured and found to depend strongly upon the surface treatment. (2) Scanning electron micrographs of the ruptured surfaces of used tensile test pieces cut from filled elastomer sheets confirm that surface treatment has a profound effect upon the adhesion between bead and matrix. Results are presented for the hardness and tensile stress-strain properties of elastomers containing various amounts of beads. In all cases, the stiffening effect of the beads increases as the adhesion between beads and matrix is improved. Beads which had been treated in such a way as to minimize the adhesion to the matrix were found to cause an apparent softening of the material as revealed by the tensile stress-strain curve. It has been shown that this effect can be satisfactorily explained if it is assumed that in this case the beads merely serve to increase the void content of the material.

1975 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Blackley ◽  
M. W. Sheikh

Abstract This paper presents and discusses results which have been obtained for the swelling in chlorobenzene of crosslinked poly (ethyl acrylates) containing various amounts of microscopic glass beads. The adhesion between the glass beads and the elastomer matrix was varied by subjecting the beads to different surface treatments. The swelling behavior has been found to correlate very closely with the extent of adhesion as judged by peel force measurements and tensile stress-strain properties reported previously. In the case of beads showing pronounced adhesion to the matrix, restrictions on swelling have been interpreted in terms of an apparent enhancement of crosslink density by the reactive beads.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Chunzhi Du ◽  
Zhifan Li ◽  
Bingfei Liu

Nanoporous Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are widely used in aerospace, military industry, medical and health and other fields. More and more attention has been paid to its mechanical properties. In particular, when the size of the pores is reduced to the nanometer level, the effect of the surface effect of the nanoporous material on the mechanical properties of the SMA will increase sharply, and the residual strain of the SMA material will change with the nanoporosity. In this work, the expression of Young’s modulus of nanopore SMA considering surface effects is first derived, which is a function of nanoporosity and nanopore size. Based on the obtained Young’s modulus, a constitutive model of nanoporous SMA considering residual strain is established. Then, the stress–strain curve of dense SMA based on the new constitutive model is drawn by numerical method. The results are in good agreement with the simulation results in the published literature. Finally, the stress-strain curves of SMA with different nanoporosities are drawn, and it is concluded that the Young’s modulus and strength limit decrease with the increase of nanoporosity.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3626
Author(s):  
Łukasz Hojdys ◽  
Piotr Krajewski

This paper presents the results of direct tensile tests performed on six different FRCM (fabric reinforced cementitious matrix) strengthening systems used for masonry structures. The emphasis was placed on the determination of the mechanical parameters of each tested system and a comparison of their tensile behaviour in terms of first crack stress, ultimate stress, ultimate strain, cracking pattern, failure mode and idealised tensile stress-strain curve. In addition to the basic mechanical tensile parameters, accidental load eccentricities, matrix tensile strengths, and matrix modules of elasticity were estimated. The results of the tests showed that the tensile behaviour of FRCM composites strongly depends on the parameters of the constituent materials (matrix and fabric). In the tests, tensile failure of reinforcement and fibre slippage within the matrix were observed. The presented research showed that the accidental eccentricities did not substantially affect the obtained results and that the more slender the specimen used, the more consistent the obtained results. The analysis based on a rule of mixtures showed that the direct tensile to flexural tensile strength ratio of the matrixes used in the test was 0.2 to 0.4. Finally, the tensile stress–strain relationship for the tested FRCMs was idealised by a bi- or tri-linear curve.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
W.-c. Xie ◽  
X.-l. Wang ◽  
D.-p. Duan ◽  
J.-w. Tang ◽  
Y. Wei

ABSTRACT Stratospheric airships are promising aircraft, usually designed as a non-rigid airship. As an essential part of the non-rigid airship, the envelope plays a significant role in maintaining its shape and bearing the external force load. Generally, the envelope material of a flexible airship consists of plain-weave fabric, composed of warp and weft fibre yarn. At present, biaxial tensile experiments are the primary method used to study the stress–strain characteristics of such flexible airship materials. In this work, biaxial tensile testing of UN-5100 material was carried out. The strain on the material under unusual stress and the stress ratio were obtained using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technology. Also, the stress–strain curve was corrected by polynomial fitting. The slope of the stress–strain curve at different points, the Membrane Structures Association of Japan (MSAJ) standard and the Radial Basis Function (RBF) model were compared to identify the stress–strain characteristics of the materials. Some conclusions on the mechanical properties of the flexible airship material can be drawn and will play a significant role in the design of such envelopes.


2005 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Jun Kim ◽  
Sang Heum Youn ◽  
M.J. Cho ◽  
H.T. Shin ◽  
Jeong Bae Yoon ◽  
...  

To improve the mechanical properties of concretes containing recycled aggregates, pozzolanic materials were used to decrease the porosity of the recycled aggregates. These pozzolanic materials were adhered on the surface of recycled aggregates and closed the open pores so that the water absorption was decreased 1~2% as the amount of adsorption was increased. Compressive strength of cement mortars and concretes using surface treated recycled aggregates reaches above 95% of the strength of its natural counterparts. Investigation of the microstructures using the scanning electron micrographs showed the formation of dense interface after the adsorption treatment of pozzolanics to recycled aggregates.


2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 1289-1292
Author(s):  
Guo Liang Zhu

Regional confined concrete is base on confined concrete. It is the theory and application of a new attempt and development on confined concrete. To apply it to the actual project, we need to research mechanical properties and establish constitutive relationship of regional confined concrete. According to the research, we had carried on a series of tests, founded the stress-strain constitutive model of regional confined concrete under single axial press. The accuracy of theoretical analysis were more fully verified , and a theoretical basis for the application was provided.


Author(s):  
Cornelius Ogbodo Anayo Agbo

The concern of this paper is to develop simple workshop application models for predicting the mechanical properties and the evaluation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of chopped strand fibre-mat reinforced thermoset composites. A hybrid of empirical and strength of materials approach was used at macro- and micro-mechanics levels to model the random fibres which were treated as simple bars within the mat preform and the resulting composite material. The model was validated experimentally by testing wet lay-up produced samples with varying fibre volume fractions and they were found to agree well. The toughness modulus of the composite was also modeled using the secant modulus obtained from the sample’s stress – strain curves of uniform material composites produced at different temperature histories. The toughness modulus determined using the new model was compared with that obtained using the area under the same stress – strain curve computed by Simpson’s rule and the results agreed very well.


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