Glass vinyl ester

Boyd, S., Compression Creep Rupture ofanE-Glass/Vinyl Ester Composite Subjected to Combined Mechanical and Fire Loading Conditions, Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Mechanics, 2006. 

Gardner et al. [42] presented test results on shock-loaded sandwich panels comprising E-glass vinyl ester face sheets and a Corecell polymeric foam core. Tests on panels with stepwise graded density cores and with PU interlayers were also examined. Digital image correlation was used to capmre the dynamic response of the panels. The results showed that polyuria core improved the performance of the panels when placed on the rear side of the panel. Core compression, face sheet delamination and core cracking were all observed. 

Tekalur SA, Shivakumar K, Shukla A. Mechanical behaviour and damage evolution in E-glass vinyl ester and carbon composites subjected to static and blast loads. Composites Part B 2008 39 57-65. 

Compression creep rupture behavior of a glass/vinyl ester composite subject to isothermal and one-sided heat fiux conditions. Composites Part A, 38, 1462-1472. 

Table 2.3 Smoke data (ASTM) for various glass/vinyl-ester composites ...

El-Ragaby A, El-Salakawy E and Benmokrane B (2007), Fatigue analysis of concrete bridge deck slabs reinforced with E-glass/vinyl ester FRP reinforcing bars . Compos Part B,3S 103-111. doi 10.1016/j.compositesb.2006.07.012... 

Seawater aging of epoxy and vinyl ester resins reinforced with different fibers (e g. glass and carbon) has also been investigated (Narasimha Murthy et al., 2010). The experimental results have evidenced that the vinyl ester composites retain better their mechanical properties than epoxy ones in particular, the flexural strength and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) dropped by about 35% and 27% for glass/epoxy, by 22% and 15% for glass/vinyl ester, by 48% and 34% for carbon/epoxy, and by 28% and 21% for carbon/ vinyl ester composites, respectively. In contrast, the authors have shown that the water uptake of the epoxy-based composites is lower than that of the vinyl ester ones. 

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