Glass fibre reinforced plastic

Plastics also find increasing use in vehicles for both water and air transport. Glass-fibre-reinforced plastic boats are widely used as a result of their economy in manufacture, ease of maintenance, lightness of weight and, for military purposes, antimagnetic characteristics. The non-corrosive nature of plastics also leads to their widespread use in boat fixtures and fittings. In aircraft, plastics are particularly useful on account of their low density. 

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GRP Glass-fibre reinforced plastic based on a thermosetting resin ... 

Jones, F.R., Interfacial aspects of glass fibre reinforced plastics. In Jones, F.R. (Ed.), Interfacial Phenomena in Composite Materials. Butterworths, London, 1989, pp. 25-32. Chaudhury, M.K., Gentle, T.M. and Plueddemann, E., Adhesion mechanism of poly(vinyl chloride) to silane primed metal surfaces. J. Adhes. Sci. Technol, 1(1), 29-38 (1987). Gellman, A.J., Naasz, B.M., Schmidt, R.G., Chaudhury, M.K, and Gentle, T.M., Secondary neutral mass spectrometry studies of germanium-silane coupling agent-polymer interphases. J. Adhes. Sci. Technol., 4(7), 597-601 (1990). 

GFRP - Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic KFRP - Kevlar Fibre Reinforced Plastic CFRP - Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic... 

GFRP - Glass fibre reinforced plastic KFRP - Kevlar fibre reinforced plastic CRFP - Carbon fibre reinforced plastic... 

The general fatigue behaviour which is observed in glass fibre reinforced plastics is illustrated in Fig. 3.32. In most grp materials, debonding occurs... 

Recycling of glass fibre-reinforced plastics is reviewed, with special emphasis on remelting of thermoplastic composites, mechanical recycling of thermoset composites, depolymerisation and dissolution of thermosets and thermoplastics, closed loop recycling of glass, and the use of glass as a mechanical compatibiliser. 32 refs. 

The use of these resins is made for obtaining glass fibre reinforced plastics which have high impact and tensile strength similar to steel. They are good insulators and resistant to chemicals. They can be used upto 150-200°C. 

External panels of house or building with glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) skins... Disposable formworks. .. 

Framework pultruded long glass fibre reinforced plastics. 

Man-made composites fall into three broad classes, depending on whether the main part of the composite, the matrix, is a polymer, a metal or a ceramic. Often, but not always, the composite combines materials from two classes, as in glass-fibre-reinforced plastics. However, the most widely used composite material, concrete, is a ceramic -ceramic composite. The most important classes of artificial composite are described below. The mechanical properties of composites are discussed in Section 10.4. Biological composites are very varied and will not be considered here. 

Sheard PA. Transverse and environmental cracking of glass fibre reinforced plastics [Ph. D. thesis]. University of Surrey 1986. 

Kister G, Ralph B, Fernando GF. Damage detection in glass fibre-reinforced plastic composites using self-sensing E-glass fibres. Smart Mater Stmct 2004 13(5) 1166—75. http //dx.doi.Org/10.1088/0964-1726/13/5/021. 

The stress corrosion, that is the corrosion as a result of the combined action of chemical and mechanical action, of glass fibre reinforced plastics in aqueous media has been reviewed by Roberts [73], Hogg and Hull [74] and Menges and Lutterbeck [75], although none of the work referenced is specific to sea water exposure. The subject of the corrosion of FRP under static loading is discussed in some detail in Chapter 3, and cyclic loading or fatigue is the subject of Chapters 5 and 11 in this book, but both these topics will be briefly mentioned here in the context of marine applications. 

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