Aluminum fiberglass composite

Recently, Acsion Industries and UCB Chemicals have undertaken a development program of cationic initiated epoxy adhesive for aluminum-to-aluminum, aluminum-to-composite, and composite-to-composite bonding. This has led to a series of bonding adhesives that have tensile shear strengths of 13 to 17 MPa on fiberglass-to-fiberglass substrates and 35 to 52 MPa on aluminum-to-aluminum substrates.11... 

The storage and transfer of raw chemicals requires special considerations relative to the equipment that come into contact with epoxy resins. Carbon steel is generally satisfactory for pipe and tank construction and will not rust beneath the epoxy resin. Rust occuring above the level of the epoxy and accidentally introduced into the resin may be removed by filters. Epoxy coated steel pipe, aluminum or stainless steel pipe, or epoxy fiberglass composite tubing is used to prevent rusting downstream of the filter. 

J. D. Minford, Adhesive joining aluminum to engineering plastics I. polyester fiberglass composite, in Physicochemical Aspects of Polymer Surfaces (K. L. Mittal, ed.), Vol. 2, p. 1139, Plenum Press, New York (1983). 

Suppose we change our attention from structures in which the driver is functional consideration alone to something like an automobile where cost is also extremely important. We can get the functional job done with other materials, like steel and aluminum and fiberglass in certain places and unreinforced plastic in others. Then, the question becomes can we make a material substitution that will enable us to compete with the cost of these other materials to do a job that with all the other materials we cannot accomplish That is a different kind of question, and then cost becomes an extremely important driver. And, as cost of advanced composite structures goes down, we can expect to see more and more utilization of advanced composite materials. 

The loss of three-dimensionality in the higher temperature regime is not a consequence of internal sample geometry—the fibers are macroscopic. For example, the specific heat of the boron/aluminum composite contains the cubic term and conforms to the mixture principle for bulk metallic ingredients. Moreover, experiments performed previously and discussed elsewhere [ ] demonstrate the dominance of a quadratic term in the low-temperature specific heat of a fiberglass-cloth-reinforced resin. The tendency to lower-order dimensionality is presumably a property of the lattice dynamics of the polymeric chains and rings characteristic of the resin matrix. 

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Materials so formed have many structural applications. Glass fiber, for example, is commonly used to construct different fiberglass shapes, from flower pots to boat hulls, and is the most familiar of composite fiber materials. Glass fiber is also used in the construction of modem aircraft, such as the Airbus A-380, whose fuselage panels are composite structures of glass fibers embedded in a matrix of aluminum metal. 

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