Oriented precursors of MFCs consisting of HDPE and PA6 or PA12 are studied during strain-controlled slow load-cycling. In the PA6-containing blends a strongly retarded nanostrain response is detected. Compatibilization induces nanostrain heterogenization. Stress fatigue is lower in the PA12 blends, but hardly decreased by the compatibilizer. Selective migration of the compatibilizer into a disordered semi-cryst...
Traditional melt processing techniques limit in shape and thickness the parts of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites. Producing of thermoplastic hybrid composites through melt intercalation often results in heterogeneous products due to micron-scale agglomerations with a negative effect on the mechanical properties. The in-situ polymerization processes to form the matrix in polymer composites have proved ...
The functional properties of the aramid-reinforced polymer composites depend primarily on the properties of the aramid reinforcing fibers, since the fraction of the fiber constituent in FRP is quite high, usually well above 30% by volume. The properties of the aramid fibers, in turn, depend on their chemical composition and manufacturing conditions: both of these determine the fibers physical structure and mech...
There exist only few studies on the possibility to use the in-situ microfibrillar technology in HDPE/PA blends notwithstanding the good knowledge on the structure and properties of these blends. The main objective of this chapter is to summarize these studies in the field of the preparation, mechanical and structural characterization of HDPE/PA6 and HDPE/PA12 MFC materials. Along this presentation, the relation...
The scope of the present chapter had to be limited to some recent studies on the application of synchrotron WAXS and SAXS in three particular multicomponent and multiphase polymer systems. The first system comprises materials that became known as microfibrillar reinforced composites (MFC) produced from oriented blends of thermoplastic semicrystalline polymers by conventional processing techniques. These materia...
Polyamide 6/montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposites were prepared by melt compounding method comprising 1–7.5 wt % of Nanomer I.24 TL or 5 and 10 wt % of Cloisite 15A organically modified nanoclays. The composite samples were characterized by synchrotron X-ray, thermal and FT-IR spectroscopy methods looking for changes in the micro- and nanostructure of both PA6 matrix and MMT reinforcement as a function of the cl...
The mechanical behavior of microfibrilar composites (MFC), consisting of a matrix of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and reinforcement of polyamide 6 (PA6) fibrils, with and without compatibilization, was studied. The composites were produced by conventional processing techniques with various shape and arrangement of the PA6 reinforcing entities: long, unidirectional, or crossed bundles of fibrils (UDP and CPC...
Epoxy resin is chosen for our present study owing to its exceptional combination of properties such as easy processing, high safety, excellent solvent and chemical resistance, toughness, low shrinkage on cure, good electrical, mechanical and corrosion resistance with excellent adhesion to many substrates. This versatility in formulation made epoxy resins widely applied for surface coatings, adhesives, laminates...
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