Short fibre reinforced thermoplastics

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Sato N., Kurauchi T., Sato S. and Kamigaito O. (1983). SEM observation of the initiation and propagation of cracks in a short fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite under stress. J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 2, 188-190. 

Folkes, M.J. (1982) Short fibre reinforced thermoplastics. Research Studies Press, Chichester, UK... 

Damage tolerance of fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites Processing of polymer matrices using resin transfer moulding Fractal analysis of wear in short-fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites Rheology flow behavior of associative polymers in coating applications Kevlar-thermoplastic composites... 

Thermoforming is another mass production method normally associated with unreinforced or short fibre reinforced thermoplastics, but because of recent developments in reinforced plastics technology, discussed below, there is a greater availability of thermoplastics sheet reinforced by long or continuous glass fibres, so it may become more important for these materials as well. 

Thermoplastics offer a wide variety of properties ranging from the low intrinsic stiffness and high design freedom of neat and short fibre reinforced thermoplastics to the high intrinsic stiffness and low design freedom of continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites. Different polymeric... 

An apparatus specially developed to meet these conditions which has proved to work reliably and with high sensitivity for a wide range of polymers, from LDPE to highly rigid short fibre reinforced thermoplastics, over a wide temperature range is that described by Darlington and Saunders and Darlington (1971, unpublished). 

Folkes MJ, Short Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics, Research Studies Press, Letchworth, 1982. 

Folkes MJ, Short Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics, Research Studies Press, Letchworth, 1982. Bigg DM, Characteristics of short, conductive fibre reinforced injection mouldable composites, J. Ind Fabrics, 2(3), 4-14, 1983-1984. 

Hot-curing materials with randomly arranged reinforcement are available in grades suitable for processing by conventional compression, transfer or injection moulding. Short fibre-reinforced thermoplastics are usually injection moulded. Processes that are peculiar... 

Short fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites can be processed by most of the classical thermoplastic processing techniques, such as, extrusion and injection moulding. A detailed discussion is provided for these classical thermoplastic processing techniques in Section 9.1. 

To maximise the mechanical properties of short fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites, it is necessary to achieve effective stress transfer between fibre and polymer matrix and appropriate fibre alignment in the finished component relative to the direction of applied stress. The former requirement is governed primarily by the method of compounding, whilst fibre orientation is very dependent on moulding conditions [76]. 

M.J. Folkes, P.R. Hornsby, P.D. Shipton and W.K. Wong, Proceedings of the Plastics and Rubber Institute Conference on Short Fibre-Reinforced Thermoplastics, Solihnll, UK, October, 1988, Paper No.2. 

Lucintel, a global market research firm, has studied the sector. They reviewed the global short fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites market and estimated that the sector could reach approximately 5.99 billion by 2019 [4]. 

Mlekusch, B., Lehner, E. A. and Geymayer W., Fibre orientation in short-fibre-reinforced thermoplastics I. Contrast enhancement for image analysis. Composites Science and Technology, 59, 543-545 (1999). 

Hegler, R.P., Fibre Orientation in the Processing of Short Fibre-Reinforced Thermoplastics, Kunststoffe-German Plastics, 74 (5), 12-16 (1984). 

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