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Fibrous Composites. These composites consist of fibers in a matrix. The fibers may be short or discontinuous and randomly arranged continuous filaments arranged parallel to each other in the form of woven rovings (coUections of bundles of continuous filaments) or braided (8). In the case of chopped strand mat the random arrangement is planar. In whisker (needle-shaped crystals or filaments of carbon and ceramics) reinforced materials the arrangement is usually three-dimensional and the resulting composites are macroscopically homogeneous. 

Baxter, W.J., The strength of metal matrix composites reinforced with randomly oriented discontinuous fibers, 1992, Metall Trans. 23A, 3045... 

Benkoski, J.J., Fredrickson, G.H. and Kramer, E.J., The effect of composition drift on the effectiveness of random copolymer reinforcement at polymer-polymer interfaces. Macromolecules (2001, in press). 

If the matrix in 3.7 was reinforced with the same volume fraction of glass but in the form of randomly oriented glass fibres rather than continuous filaments, what would be the tensile strength of the composite. The fibres are 15 mm long, have an aspect ratio of 1000 and produce a reinforcement efficiency of 0.25. The fibre strength is 2 GN/m and the shear strength of the interface is 4 MN/m". 

Hashin and Rosen [3-8] extended Hashin s work to fiber-reinforced composite materiais. The fibers have a circular cross section and can be hoilow or solid. Two cases were treated (1) identical fibers in a he gotiaLarray and (2) fibers of various diameters (but same ratio of insldeto outside diameter, if hollow) in a random array. The two types of arrays are depicted in Figure 3-21. In both cases, the basic anaiysis... 

Figure 5 Schematic representation of (a) aligned and (b) randomly oriented fiber reinforced composites.

Based on this analysis it is evident that materials which are biaxially oriented will have good puncture resistance. Highly polar polymers would be resistant to puncture failure because of their tendency to increase in strength when stretched. The addition of randomly dispersed fibrous filler will also add resistance to puncture loads. From some examples such as oriented polyethylene glycol terephthalate (Mylar), vulcanized fiber, and oriented nylon, it is evident that these materials meet one or more of the conditions reviewed. Products and plastics that meet with puncture loading conditions in applications can be reinforced against this type of stress by use of a surface layer of plastic with good puncture resistance. Resistance of the surface layer to puncture will protect the product from puncture loads. An example of this type of application is the addition of an oriented PS layer to foam cups to improve their performance. 

Spray-up Popular system with reinforced plastic production. An air spray gun includes a roller cutter that chops usually glass fiber rovings to a controlled short length before being blown in a random pattern (manually or automatically) onto a surface of the mold simultaneously the gun sprays catalyzed TS polyester plastic. The chopped fibers are plastic coated as they exit the gun s nozzle. The resulting, rather fluffy, RP mass is consolidated with serrated rollers to squeeze out air and reduce or eliminate voids. A closed mold... 

Equation 10.4, which describes the mass transfer rate arising solely from the random movement of molecules, is applicable to a stationary medium or a fluid in streamline flow. If circulating currents or eddies are present, then the molecular mechanism will be reinforced and the total mass transfer rate may be written as ... 

Whiskers are short fibers, usually a single crystal with an aspect ratio of 10/1 or greater. They have high strength but are difficult to process. Their applications so far has been limited SiC whiskers are reported as random reinforcement for ceramics and in alumina cutting tools. CVD is a common production method.O Beside SiC, the following whiskers have recently been produced by CVD ... 

First-generation polymer composites (e.g., fiberglass) used thermosetting epoxy polymers reinforced with randomly oriented short glass fibers. The filled epoxy resin could be cured into a permanent shape in a mold to give lightweight, moderately strong shapes. 

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After about 30 training sessions, most animals had acquired the PCP vs. vehicle discrimination, as evidenced by at least 9 out of 10 consecutive sessions during which the rats emitted fewer than 20 responses before the first reinforcement. Following this acquisition of the discrimination, the animals were tested in a random order with different doses of PCP. Figure 1 shows the dose-response profile for PCP discrimination in different groups of rats trained to discriminate 1.0, 1.78 or 3.2 mg/kg of PCP from vehicle. At low doses of PCP few, if any, rats chose the lever previously paired with PCP (i.e., most rats chose the vehicle-associated lever). 

Rigid Structural Entities. If the initial structure is described by rigid, anisotropic structural entities which are oriented at random, the evolution of anisotropic scattering is readily studied by means of the methods presented in Chap. 9. A practical example is the study of growing orientation in fiber-reinforced materials. 

Our conclusion is that the original separation of equation 44-51 into two equations, while it served us well for computing Em and Ta, fails us here. This is because AEs and AEr are random variables and we cannot treat their influences separately we have no expectation that they will either cancel or reinforce each other, wholly or partially, in any particular measurement. Therefore when we compute the variance of AT we wish to retain the contribution from both terms. 

After the submission of this paper several publications have appeared in the literature that reinforce the role of rifaximin in the treatment of infectious diarrhea [1]. An entire issue of the Journal of Travel Medicine devoted to the use of this antibiotic in the treatment of traveler s diarrhea (TD) has been published [2-5], In addition, a recent paper from our laboratory [6] confirmed the rifaximin efficacy also in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli-mediated TD. Furthermore, in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-con-trolled study [7] even once daily administration of the antibiotic proved to be capable of preventing TD. Finally, Lawler and Wallace [8] recently reviewed the treatment options for bacterial diarrhea and considered rifaximin a useful addition to our therapeutic armamentarium. 

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