Composite materials definition

The term composite materialis used to describe macroscopic combiaations of two or more materials. Macroscopic combiaations are specified to exclude alloys that consist of materials combined on a microscopic scale (1). Such an exclusive definition of composite materials is not universal, but it is commonly accepted and it helps restrict to a manageable size an introductory treatment of the science and technology of composite materials. 

A polymer blend is a physical or mechanical blend (alloy) of two or more homopolymers or copolymers. Although a polymer blend is not a copolymer according to the above definition, it is mentioned here because of its commercial importance and the frequency with which blends are compared with chemically bonded copolymers. Another technologically significant material relative to the copolymer is the composite, a physical or mechanical combination of a polymer with some unlike material, eg, reinforcing materials such as carbon black, graphite fiber, and glass (see Composite materials). 

Micromechanics — The study of composite material behavior wherein the interaction of the constituent materials is examined in detail as part of the definition of the behavior of the heterogeneous composite material. 

Definitive studies of composite material tensile strength from a micromechanics viewpoint simply do not exist. Obviously, much work remains in this area before composite materials can be accurately designed, i.e., constituents chosen and proportioned to resist a specified tensile stress. 

The basic nature of composite materials was introduced in Chapter 1. An overall classification scheme was presented, and the mechanical behavior aspects of composite materials that differ from those of conventional materials were described in a qualitative fashion. The book was then restricted to laminated fiber-reinforced composite mafeffals. The basic definitions and how such materials are made were then treated. Finally, the current and potential advantages of composite materials were discussed along with some case histories that clearly reveal how composite materials are used in structures. 

The next problem area of micromechanics is initially very attractive in some respects. We look to the fundamental definition of a composite material made up in this case of, say, a fiber and a matrix and attempt to actually design that material. Let us change the proportions of fibers and matrix so that we get the kind of material behavior characteristics we want. That objective is admirable, but achieving that objective in all cases is not entirely realistic. 

Over the last decade advances have occurred very rapidly in the area identified as composite materials. In general, a composite material is the combination of any two or more materials, one of which has superior mechanical properties but is in a difficult to use form (e.g. fiber, powder, etc.). The superior component is usually the reinforcement while the other component serves as the matrix in which the reinforcement is dispersed. The resultant composite is a material whose properties are near those of the reinforcement element but in a form which can be easily handled and can easily function as a structural element. Included in this definition are all of the reinforced materials including particulate, fiber, flake and sheet reinforcements. Adhesive joints for, example, would be a planar or two dimensional composite 1). 

What is accomplished by adhesion promotion treatments in IC manufacturing should actually be referred to as wafer substrate preparation, and not adhesion. Adhesion in the structural sense, as experienced in airplane composite material parts attachment, is not accomplished by silane wafer processing treatments except for the PI applications discussed early in this paper. The term adhesion, as it is used here, refers to a more practical definition—that is, resist image adhesion. Nevertheless, this type of adhesion is essential to the huge international semiconductor business, and the early silane work of Plueddemann and others was essential to early wafer adhesion process development. 

In 1963 Hill47) defined the Representative Volume Element (RVE) in a consideration of general properties of composite materials. The definition is more exact than Sander s, which it includes. 

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Ln E, clusters are air-sensitive, a definite obstacle in composite materials synthesis. Air-stable O-containing ligands (e.g. O2-) could be another solution but the resulting clusters react with water to form hydroxides. Selenium oxide is an alternative soluble source of oxo ligands, giving for instance [Ln8(/u,3-0)2(M5-Se)2(SePh)i6(thf)8]-6thf clusters (fig. 101, bot-... 

In this review, RPs are considered to be combinations of materials differing in composition or form on a macro scale. But all of the constituents in the plastic composite retain their identities and do not dissolve or otherwise completely merge into each other. This definition is not entirely precise. It includes some materials often not considered to be composites. Furthermore, some combinations may be thought of as composite structures rather than composite materials. The dividing line is not sharp and differences of opinion do exist. Regardless the name composite literally identifies thousands of different combinations with very few that include the use of plastics. In using the term composites when plastics are involved the more appropriate term is plastic composites or just RP. 

In this chapter, we define some important terms and parameters that are commonly used with fibers and fiber products such as yams, fabrics, etc., and then describe some general features of fibers and their products. These definitions, parameters, and features serve to characterize a variety of fibers and products made from them, excluding items such as fiber reinforced composites. These definitions and features are generally independent of fiber type, i.e. polymeric, metallic, glass or ceramic fibers. They depend on the geometry rather than any material characteristics. 

Most polyuronides are complex mixtures of closely related compounds. They cannot be purified by crystallization. The most that can be done is to free them as far as possible from inorganic materials and nonpolyuronide organic materials and to separate them by various methods of fractionation into mixtures that approximate the composition of definite compounds. During this process acids should be used only in low concentrations and at low temperatures. 

Grindability (in its many different definitions) is a composite material property, and depends on many primary material properties (e.g. particle hardness, bulk and shear moduli of elasticity) as well as its flow properties and other conditions like moisture content, humidity of the atmosphere or material composition (rank or ash content of coal, for example). It also depends on the type of mill used for its evaluation. There have been some attempts made by several authors to find correlations relating different measures of grindability the reader is referred to the literature for details of these54. 

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