Mechanical Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Plastics

1 Long-Term Mechanical Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Plastics. 886 

4 Concept of Creep and Fatigue Life Prediction for Polymer 

3 Master Curve of Fatigue Strength for Zero Stress Ratio. 903 

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These widely cited papers contribute to dimming the boundary between the polymer blend and polymer composite. Blends of thermofiopic LCPs with thermoplastic polymers are processed and molded by conventional techniques such as extrusion, injection molding, and spinning with related equipment. However, the resultant products have the characteristic reinforced structure and mechanical behaviors of fiber-reinforced plastics or composites. It is common where technical terms of LCP blends and in situ composites have the same meaning. LCP blends almost refer to blends with thermofiopic LCPs as the minor portion so that in sim composites and newly invented in situ hybrid composites are the main content of this chapter on polymer blends. 

Prian L, Barkatt A (1999) Degradation mechanism of fiber-reinforced plastics and its implications to prediction of long-term behavior. J Mater Sci 34(16) 3977-3989 Regester RF (1969) Behavior of fiber reinforced plastic materials in chemical service. Corrosion 25(4) 157-167... 

In recent years, lots of plastic parts are made of fiber-reinforced engineering materials for increasing its meehanieal properties, snch as strength and durability. However, these mechanical properties of fiber-reinforc plastie parts highly depend on its fiber orientation, which determines the fiber-indnced anisotropic mechanical properties. Since the flow induced fiber orientation is complex 3D behavior, the final properties of injected parts calculated from fiber orientation also become very complicated. Thus, a 3D injection molding simulation technique is adopted in this research and is capable of simulating the fiber orientation and the anisotropic warpage behavior. 

Performance of plastics , W. Brostow Hanser Gardner Pubis (1999) ISBN 1569902771. Comprehensively covers the behavior of the most important polymer materials. Subject areas range from Computer Simulations of Mechanical Behavior to Reliability and Durability of aircraft structures made of fiber-reinforced hydrocarbons. 

While the fringe-micelle model for crystalline polymers has not been fashionable for some time, it may have some utility in modeling stress transfer and faUure mechanisms. In any event, a fringe micelle model is a primitive form of more general composites models which attempt to model the behavior of crystalliiM polymers using the same techniques as for filled S5rstems or fiber reinforced plastics. The ESR studies may serve to provide valuable insight into the validity of such models for... 

Cantero G. Arbelaiz A. Mugika F. Valea A. Mondragon L Mechanical behavior of wood/polypropylene composites Effects of fiber treatments and ageing processes. Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, vol. 22, (2003), pp. 37-50. 

Chapters 15-18 focus on the weathering/mechanical study of lignocellulosic fiber-reinforced polymer composites. The effect of different environmental conditions on the physico-chemical and mechanical properties of the polymer composites is discussed in detail in these chapters. Chapter 15 mainly focuses on the effect of weathering conditions on the properties of lignocellulosic polymer composites. Most of the focus of this chapter is the effect of UV radiation on different properties of composites. Chapter 16 describes the effect of layering pattern on the physical, mechanical and acoustic properties of luffa/coir fiber-reinforced epoxy novolac hybrid composites, and Chapter 17 summarizes the fracture mechanism of wood plastic composites. Chapter 18 focuses on the mechanical behavior of biocomposites xmder different environmental conditions. 

Hidemitsu Hojo et al. (Hidemitsu et al., 1998) reviewed the behavior, the forms and mechanisms of corrosion of resins and glass fiber reinforced plastics under several aqueous solutions. They concluded that the concept of the corrosion rate of metals could be applied even in plastics and fiber reinforced plastics for each corrosion form. The corrosion resistance of the composites is mainly dependant on the resin s corrosion resistance properties and the corrosion crack propagation. Applications requiring corrosion resistant composite materials usually use epoxy and polyester resin as the composite matrix because these thermosets have high resistance to chemical attack. Among the various type of resins epoxies dominate the... 

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