Nylon long glass fiber reinforced

As an example LNP Engineering Plastics, USA has been publishing results of tests that include a selection of die-cast metals compared with a 60 wt% long glass fiber reinforced nylon 6/6 compound (Verton RF700-12EM). The conclusion was that (for moisture-conditioned samples) with a density lower than metals, with the exception of certain... 

J. Hollin, D. Miller, D. Vautour (1998) A comparison of transverse properties of 50% short and long glass fiber reinforced nylon 6/6 resin, J. Reinf. Plast. Compos. 17,1617. 

Reinforcements. Both the resole and novolac compounds use a broad array of reinforcements to meet the demands of the market place wood flour, cotton flock, minerals, chopped fabric. Teflon, glass fibers (long and short), nylon, rubber, and kevlar. Asbestos, which had been a widely used filler in many thermosetting compotmds, has been replaced over the past 20 years with glass fiber-reinforced phenolic compounds in many applications. 

T Harmia. Fatigue behavior of neat and long glass fiber (LGF) reinforced blends of nylon 66 and isotactic PP. Polymer Composites 17 926-936, 1996. 

An example of a typical material composition is the combination of a polymer and a filler. Because compounding is a techiuque that can complement the drawbacks of conventional polymers, it has been studied over a long period and its practical apphcations are well known. Reinforcing materials such as short-fiber are often used for compounding with thermoplastic polymers in order to improve their mechaiucal or thermal properties. Polypropylene and polyamide (nylon) are used for the thermoplastic polymers, while glass fiber and carbon fiber are mainly used as reinforcing materials. A few ttm... 

The growth of these materials is reflected in the number of polymers which are being glass reinforced. These include polypropylene, polystyrene, styrene acrylonitrile, nylon, polyethylene, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, modified polyphenylene oxide, polycarbonate, acetal, polysulfone, polyurethane, poly (vinyl chloride), and polyester. In addition, the reinforced thermoplastics available now include long-fiber compounds, short-fiber compounds, super concentrates for economy, a combination of long and short fibers, and blends of polymer and fibrous glass. 

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