✦ LIBER ✦
Influence of chopped strand fibres on the flexural behaviour of a syntactic foam core system
✍ Scribed by Karthikeyan, C. S.; Sankaran, S.; Kishore,
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 752 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8103
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✦ Synopsis
The comparative performance in a three point bending test of syntactic foam comprising epoxy resin and glass microballoons with and without the inclusion of glass ®bre in the form of chopped strands is reported. Test samples having a span-to-depth ratio of 16:1 were used. The data show that the glass ®bre reinforced foam system had a higher strength compared to the unreinforced system. Resorting to light macroscopic and scanning electron microscopic examinations on mechanically tested samples expanded the scope of the work for a structure±property correlation to emerge.