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Acrylic, Elastomeric, Particle-Dispersed Epoxy-Clay Hybrid Nanocomposites: Mechanical Properties
✍ Scribed by Subramanian Balakrishnan; Dharmaraj Raghavan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Summary: Nanocomposites were formulated by curing a sonicated mixture of epoxy resin, C18 clay, and acrylic rubber dispersants. At 5.5 phr (parts per hundred) organoclay loading and a rubber concentration of 15 phr, the tensile‐failure strain of the nanocomposite was found to be higher than that of epoxy nanocomposite, rubber‐dispersed epoxy, and pristine epoxy. A plausible mechanism for improvement of the failure strain of nanocomposites is proposed.
Stress strain curves of filled and unfilled epoxy specimen.
magnified imageStress strain curves of filled and unfilled epoxy specimen.