Glass polyester

Sanitary ware, including tubs, showers, combined units, basins, and toilet tank, may be made of thermoformed ABS or acryHc sheet, molded glass-fiber-reinforced polyester, or cast acryHc resins. The glass-polyester type dominates the tub/shower market. It is possible to install the units as a two-component system, assembled in place. Gel coats may be of thermoformed decorative acryHc skins. To reduce the smoke generated by fire, methyl... 

Indicate, if known, preferred bag material that will withstand environment, e.g., fibers of glass, polyester, Teflon , Nomex , polypropylene, polyethylene, cotton, wool, nylon, Orion , Dacron , and Dynel . The type of weave of fiber should be recommended by the manufacturer. The fabrics may be felted or woven [47,48] in weaves of plain, satin, or twill, and should be resistant to any corrosive material in the solid particles or the gas stream. 

Figure 8.6 Thermal diffusion through a 6-mm-thick glass/polyester laminate with and without cure reaction...

Two specific areas are covered more comprehensively fibrous glass polyesters and fibrous glass thermoplastics. The advances in reinforced polyesters have been in the materials and process areas. These changes are more profound than those related to mechanical properties. Hence, a treatment of mechanical properties of reinforced polyesters is not attempted. On the other hand, the reinforced thermoplastics advances are essentially in terms of many new reinforced polymers as well as a greater variety of compounds. For these reasons, it seems appropriate to discuss advances in this area in terms of properties. 

A carrier or reinforcement is usually a thin fabric, cloth, or paper used to support the semicured adhesive composition to provide a tape or film. In tapes, the carrier is the backing on which the adhesive is applied. The backing may be used for functional or decorative purposes. In epoxy films or structural tape, the carrier is usually porous and the adhesive saturates the carrier. Glass, polyester, and nylon fabric are common carriers for supported B-staged epoxy adhesive films. In these cases, the carrier provides for a method of applying the adhesive and also may act as reinforcement and a internal shim to control the thickness of the adhesive. 

Many film adhesives have a supporting carrier or reinforcement fabric incorporated into the adhesive to improve handling of the film and provide control of bond line thickness. The carriers are usually glass, polyester, or nylon fabrics of knitted, woven, or nonwoven construction. The difficulty with such carriers is that they can provide an effective way of moisture entering the bulk of the adhesive. Moisture can wick along the fiber-adhesive interface. Nylon carriers should especially be reviewed since they have a strong tendency to absorb moisture. 

Numerous studies have been made of the mechanical properties of fibrous composites these include recently published papers on impact properties by Izod (1,2, 3,4) and Charpy (5,6) and drop weight (7) tests. We reported the Charpy impact fracture behavior of various glass-polyester composites regarding the effects of temperature (8,9,10), specimen size (8), and fiber orientation (10). This paper describes the effects of the tough-brittle transition in the impact behavior of glass-polyester composites which occurs with a variation of temperature and specimen size. 

Fig. 3. Baseline method for fatigue ealeulations, and results for WISPER(X), compared to fatigue test results for an sample data set of glass-polyester specimens [14]...

Glass, carbon, and aramid fibers are used as unidirectional or fabric mat reinforcements, with E-glass/ polyester being the most commonly used system. The limitation of pultrusion is that only constant cross-section parts can be fabricated. However, a variety of hollow and solid profiles of any length can be manufactured. 

The use of these sensors is not restricted to high-performance composites, but can be extended to on-line monitoring of resin-transfer moulding (McIUiagger et al, 2000) and glass-polyester prepreg composite cure (Kim and Lee, 2002). 

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