scholarly journals The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhan Zhang ◽  
Bingyan Jiang ◽  
Chao Chen ◽  
Dietmar Drummer ◽  
Zhanyu Zhai

To make better use of fiber reinforced polymer composites in automotive applications, a clearer knowledge of its interfacial properties under dynamic and thermal loadings is necessary. In the present study, the interfacial behavior of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites under different loading temperatures and strain rates were investigated via molecular dynamics simulation. The simulation results reveal that PP molecules move easily to fit tensile deformation at higher temperatures, resulting in a lower interfacial strength of glass fiber–PP interface. The interfacial strength is enhanced with increasing strain rate because the atoms do not have enough time to relax at higher strain rates. In addition, the non-bonded interaction energy plays a crucial role during the tensile deformation of composites. The damage evolution of glass fiber–PP interface follows Weibull’s distribution. At elevated temperatures, tensile loading is more likely to cause cohesive failure because the mechanical property of PP is lower than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. However, at higher strain rates, the primary failure mode is interfacial failure because the strain rate dependency of PP is more pronounced than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. The relationship between the failure modes and loading conditions obtained by molecular dynamics simulation is consistent with the author’s previous experimental studies.

Author(s):  
Ashkan Farazin ◽  
Afrasyab Khan

Fiber-reinforced polymer-based composites may experience various strain rates under different dynamic loads. As the mechanical behavior of these composites varies with strain rate, their response will be dependent on the strain rate. This paper presents a comprehensive review on glass fibers and composites reinforced with these fibers, as the most practical polymer-based composite, under dynamic loading. First, the properties of long glass fibers under different strain rates will be reviewed in detail. In the following, experimental studies on the effects of strain rate on various types of glass fiber-reinforced polymer-based composites will be categorized and presented. The behavior of thermoset polymers will be also addressed under different strain rates. Finally, various analytical and numerical macromechanical and micromechanical models will be comprehensively described for this type of composites.


Author(s):  
Huiyang Luo ◽  
Yanli Zhang ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Hongbing Lu

A glass fiber reinforced polyurethane foam (R-PUF), used for thermal insulation of liquefied natural gas tanks, was characterized to determine its compressive strength, modulus, and relaxation behavior. Compressive tests were conducted at different strain rates, ranging from 10−3 s−1 to 10 s−1 using a servohydraulic material testing system, and from 40 s−1 to 103 s−1 using a long split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) designed for materials with low mechanical impedance such as R-PUF. Results indicate that in general both Young’s modulus and collapse strength increase with the strain rate at both room and cryogenic (−170°C) temperatures. The R-PUF shows a linearly viscoelastic behavior prior to collapse. Based on time-temperature superposition principle, relaxation curves at several temperatures were shifted horizontally to determine Young’s relaxation master curve. The results show that Young’s relaxation modulus decreases with time. The relaxation master curve obtained can be used to convert to Young’s modulus at strain rates up to 103 s−1 following linearly viscoelastic analysis after the specimen size effect has been considered.


2013 ◽  
Vol 845 ◽  
pp. 302-305
Author(s):  
Syed Azwan ◽  
Behzad Abdi ◽  
Yahya Mohd Yazid ◽  
Ayob Amran

In this paper, glass fiber reinforce polymer subject to quasi-static three point bending loading and tensile loading was studied experimentally. Glass fiber reinforced made of chopped strand mat (CSM) were used in this study. Several samples were prepared and tested by using Instron universal testing machine at different strain rate including 1mm/min, 10mm/min and 100mm/min and all of the tests were repeated three times in order to minimize experimental error and the average of the obtained results were used for further analysis. The load-extension curves and stress-strain curve of glass fiber reinforce subject to three point bending and tensile loading test were determined at different strain rate and the obtained results were compared together. As results of this study, it has found that the strain rate has effect on flexural and tensile behavior of glass fiber reinforce.


Author(s):  
Chi-Seung Lee ◽  
Myung-Sung Kim ◽  
Kwang-Ho Choi ◽  
Myung-Hyun Kim ◽  
Jae-Myung Lee

In the present study, the material characteristics of a glass fiber-reinforced polyurethane foam (RPUF) which is widely adopted to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) insulation system was investigated by a series of compressive tests under room and cryogenic temperatures. In addition, a temperature- and strain rate-dependent constitutive model was proposed to describe the material nonlinear behavior such as increase of yield stress and plateau according to temperature and strain rate variations. The elasto-viscoplastic model was transformed to an implicit form, and was implemented into the ABAQUS user-defined subroutine, namely, UMAT. Through a number of simulation using the developed subroutine, the various stress-strain relationships of RPUF were numerically predicted, and the material parameters associated with the constitutive model were identified. In order to validate the proposed method, the computational results were compared to a series of test of RPUF.


2015 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 163-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Seung Lee ◽  
Myung-Sung Kim ◽  
Seong-Bo Park ◽  
Jeong-Hyeon Kim ◽  
Chang-Seon Bang ◽  
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