Study on the Mechanical Properties of PP/EPDM/Mesoporous MCM-41 Composites

2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 853-857
Author(s):  
Na Wang ◽  
Xiang Zhou Wang ◽  
Qing Hong Fang ◽  
Er Fan Chen

Nano-sized as-synthesized MCM-41 (with template) particle, whose pore channels and outer surface are full of organic CTAB template, is used as compatibilizers for immiscible polypropylene (PP)/ethylene–propylene–diene terpolymer (EPDM) blends. The mechanical properties of PP/EPDM/mesoporous MCM-41 ternary composites are investigated. The nano-structured MCM-41 (without template) material constituted by an ordered network of hexagonal channels is selected to compare with as-synthesized MCM-41 (with template) in mechanical properties of PP/EPDM blend. The results shows that tensile strength of the blend is increased by 13.6% and the impact strength is increased by 71.6% by addition 2 wt% content of as-synthesized MCM-41 (with template) compared to pure PP/EPDM. The presence of MCM-41(without template) in the blend cannot improve the mechanical properties obviously. SEM reveals that the enhancement of the interface is obtained by adding MCM-41 (with template). SEM also indicates that incorporation of as-synthesized MCM-41 (with template) into PP/EPDM blend can act as compatibilizer, which results in a decreased particle size of dispersion phase together with morphological evidence of interfacial adhesion. However, with the presence of MCM-41 (without template), the interface do not show clearly change compared with the PP/EPDM blend. The PP/EPDM/MCM-41 (with template) composites show higher tensile strength and impact strength than the PP /EPDM / MCM-41 (without template).

2015 ◽  
Vol 659 ◽  
pp. 463-467
Author(s):  
Sirirat Wacharawichanant ◽  
Parida Amorncharoen ◽  
Ratiwan Wannasirichoke

The effects of polypropylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PP-g-MA) compatibilizers on the morphology and mechanical properties of polyoxymethylene (POM)/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) blends were investigated. Two types of compatibilizers, PP-g-MA with maleic anhydride 0.50 wt% (PP-g-MA1) and PP-g-MA with maleic anhydride 1.31 wt% (PP-g-MA2) were used to study the interfacial adhesion of POM and ABS. POM/ABS blends with and without PP-g-MA compatibilizer were prepared by an internal mixer and molded by compression molding. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to investigate the morphology of ABS phase in POM matrix. The results found that POM/ABS blends clearly demonstrated a two phase separation of dispersed ABS phase and the POM matrix phase, and ABS phase dispersed as spherical domains in POM matrix in a range of ABS 10-30 wt% and the blends containing ABS more than 30 wt% showed the elongated structure of ABS phase. The addition of PP-g-MA could improve the interfacial adhesion of POM/ABS blends due to the domain size of ABS phase decreased after adding PP-g-MA. The mechanical properties showed that the impact strength of POM/ABS blends decreased in a range of 10-20 wt% and did not change after 20 wt%. The addition of PP-g-MA did not change the impact strength of POM/ABS blends. The Young’s modulus of POM/ABS blends increased up to 30 wt% of ABS and then decreased. While the blends showed the decrease of tensile strength and percent strain at break with increasing ABS content. The addition of PP-g-MA increased the tensile strength of POM/ABS blends in a range of 30-40 wt% of ABS. The above results indicated that the morphology had an effect on the mechanical properties of polymer blends.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Rezza Ruzuqi ◽  
Victor Danny Waas

Composite material is a material that has a multi-phase system composed of reinforcing materials and matrix materials. Causes the composite materials to have advantages in various ways such as low density, high mechanical properties, performance comparable to metal, corrosion resistance, and easy to fabricate. In the marine and fisheries industry, composite materials made from fiber reinforcement, especially fiberglass, have proven to be very special and popular in boat construction because they have the advantage of being chemically inert (both applied in general and marine environments), light, strong, easy to print, and price competitiveness. Thus in this study, tensile and impact methods were used to determine the mechanical properties of fiberglass polymer composite materials. Each test is carried out on variations in the amount of fiberglass laminate CSM 300, CSM 450 and WR 600 and variations in weight percentage 99.5% -0.5%, 99% -1%, 98.5% -1, 5%, 98% -2% and 97.5%-2.5% have been used. The results showed that the greater the number of laminates, the greater the impact strength, which was 413,712 MPa, and the more the percentage of hardener, the greater the impact strength, which was 416,487 MPa. The results showed that the more laminate the tensile strength increased, which was 87.054 MPa, and the more the percentage of hardener, the lower the tensile strength, which was 73.921 MPa.


2011 ◽  
Vol 236-238 ◽  
pp. 1725-1730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Jen Chen ◽  
Ming Yuan Shen ◽  
Yi Luen Li ◽  
Chin Lung Chiang ◽  
Ming Chuen Yip

This study used carbon aerogels (CA) and phenolic resin in fixed proportations to produce nano high polymer resin, and used poly ehtylene oxide (PEO) as the modifying agent for phenolic resin to improve the mechanical properties of phenolic resin and promote the surface conductivity. The prepared nano high polymer resin and carbon cloth were made into nano-prepreg by using ultrasonic impregnation method, and a nano-prepreg composite material was prepared by using hot compacting and cut to test pieces to measure its mechanical properties and surface conductivity as well as the influence of temperature-humidity environment (85°C/168hr and 85°C/85%RH/168hr) on mechanical properties. The result showed that the surface conductivity increased by 64.55%, the tensile strength at room temperature increased by 35.7%, the flexural strength increased by 18.4%, and the impact strength increased by 101%. In hot environment (85°C/168hr), the tensile strength decreased by 23.8%, the flexural strength increased by 3.1%, and the impact strength increased by 84.6%. In high temperature-high humidity environment (85°C/85% RH/168hr), the tensile strength decreased by 29.6%, the flexural strength decreased by 17%, and the impact strength increased by 95.7%.Introduction


2011 ◽  
Vol 391-392 ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
Na Wang ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Chi Ma ◽  
Er Fan Chen

Effects of different pore size nano-mesoporous molecular sieves fillers, i. e. MCM-41, SBA-15, together with organic-montmorillonite (OMMT), mixture of OMMT/MCM-41 or OMMT/SBA-15 (m (OMMT): m (MCM-41)/m (SBA-15) =1:1) and their amounts on mechanical properties of the polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) composites were investigated. When the amount of OMMT/SBA-15 mixture was 0.5 %, tensile strength of the nano-composite reached maximum values of 46.3 MPa. When OMMT/SBA-15 mixture addition amount w (filler) was 1.2 %, impact strength of the nano-composite reached maximum values of 14 KJ/m2. In comparison with PMMA without any filler, the tensile strength and impact strength of nano-composite were increased by 8.4 % and 48 %, respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Rohit Kumar ◽  
Ramratan . ◽  
Anupam Kumar ◽  
Rajinder Singh Smagh

Elephant dung is an excellent source of cellulosic fiber that is a basic requirement for paper making. But they contributed to very small percentage production of elephant dung. So, researchers are trying to find a new area of utilization of elephant dung fiber pulp as in reinforcement’s polymer composite. In this experiment element dung fiber pulp in the natural fiber component chemically treated with alkaline and soda AQ solution in this study, it has been aimed to use elephant dung fiber pulp in composite material and to study mechanical properties of the produced material. The produced composite samples were then characterized using tensile test, Izod impact test, thickness test. The fracture surface of the polymer composite sample was also inspected with the help of SEM. The content of elephant dung fiber pulp is varied (35%, 45%, 55%) weight percentage whereas the epoxy resin is varied (50%, 40%, 30%) percentage is kept constant 15% in hardener. The entire sample has been tested in a universal testing machine as per ASTM standard for tensile strength and impact strength. It is observed that composite with 35% fiber pulp is having the highest tensile strength of 4mm 6.445 Mpa and 8mm 11.80 Mpa. The impact strength of composite with 35% fiber pulp washes highest than 45% to 55% dung fiber pulp. This produces composite sheet will be used for the surfboards, sporting goods, building panel this not only reduces the cost but also save from environmental pollution.


2021 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Prathumrat Nuyang ◽  
Atiwat Wiriya-Amornchai ◽  
Watthanaphon Cheewawuttipong

The effect of compatibilizer agent was studied when adding Aluminum fine powder (Al) to reinforce in Polypropylene (PP) by compared between polymer matrix composites (PMCs) and PMCs added Polypropylene graft maleic anhydride (PP-g-MAH).The average particle size of the aluminum fine powder was around 75 μm filled in polypropylene with different proportions of 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10wt%. PMCs were prepared using the internal mixer. The results found that when the amount of aluminum fine powder increased, the mechanical properties had changed, i.e., tensile strength, and Young’s Modulus increased, while the impact strength and elongation at break decreased. But, when adding compatibilizer 1wt% it was found that the trend of tensile strength, and Young’s Modulus increased that compared with non-compatibilizer, but the impact strength and elongation at break decreased. The part of the morphology of PMCs with non-compatibilizer was found that the particle of aluminum fine powder dispersed in the matrix phase, but there were many microvoids between filler and matrix. But, PMCs with compatibilizer caused the microvoids between filler and matrix to be reduced.


2020 ◽  
Vol 833 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Salina Budin ◽  
Koay Mei Hyie ◽  
Hamid Yussof ◽  
Aulia Ishak ◽  
Rosnani Ginting

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) is one of the most widely used plastic. The application of ABS increases rapidly in industries recently. The drawback of the increasing demand of ABS is the increment of ABS waste. Huge increment in ABS waste has led to the increasing of environmental pollution. The demand in green technology and sustainability of resources has urged the need of recycling of ABS waste. However, the mechanical properties of the recycled ABS are deteriorated. Hence, this work aims to study the mechanical properties of blend virgin and recycled ABS. The first sample started with 100wt% of virgin ABS. While the second to eleventh samples was a mixing of virgin and recycled ABS at 10wt% incremental recycled ABS. The last sample was prepared using 100wt% of recycled ABS. The results show that the tensile strength of 100wt% of recycled ABS is slightly decreased as compared to 100wt% virgin ABS. Similar trend was observed on traverse rupture strength (TRS) when the TRS for 100wt% of recycled ABS is lower by 8% when compared to 100wt% of virgin ABS. The most significant change is observed on the impact strength. The impact strength for 100wt% of recycled ABS is substantially dropped by 86% as compared to 100wt% of virgin ABS.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1061-1062 ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Shui Qing Jiang

Studies of the polypropylene grafted with malefic anhydride PP-g-MAH as compatibilizer to toughening polypropylene PP and PMMA blends. When PP/PMMA fixed ratio of 80/20, the effects of PP-g-MAH content on the blend morphology, mechanical properties and thermal properties. With the increase of PP-g-MAH content, strength and impact strength, tensile strength, PMMA/PP/PP-g-MAH blends were first increased and then decreased, and in the PP-g-MAH for 5 copies and reached the maximum value; while the flexural strength increased. The impact strength of the alloy compared with the alloy without the addition of compatibilizer increased about 30%, the tensile strength, bending strength increase obviously. That PP-g-MAH has effects on the morphology and properties of PMMA/PP/ PP-g-MAH blend system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangye Xu ◽  
Yingshui Yu ◽  
Yubo Zhang ◽  
Tingju Li ◽  
Tongmin Wang

Abstract Reinforcement particle size is very important for the performance of metal ceramic composites. This work studied the influence of B4C particle size on the mechanical properties of Al matrix layered composites. These composites were fabricated using a simplified semicontinuous casting and hot-rolling process. To obtain an optimized filling structure of particles, Horsfield filling principle was applied to determine the size and mass fraction of B4C particles. Four sizes of B4C particles were used with various combinations. The results showed that with the increase of the B4C particle size and fine B4C mass fraction, the hardness of the composites decreases whereas the impact strength and ultimate tensile strength increase. The residual stress at interface should be responsible for the variation in properties. Besides, the interparticle distance also contributes to the change in impact strength and ultimate tensile strength.


Author(s):  
Mohammed Khazal ◽  
Salman H. Abbas ◽  
Younis M. Younis ◽  
Thabit Jamel

This study aims to enhance the mechanical properties of polymer material using type of natural fiber. Bamboo fiber considered the strongest between the natural fibers group, it have low density, high mechanical strength in addition to its availability makes it economically viable and have potential for used as engineering material. The study is concerned with evaluate some of the mechanical properties (Tensile strength, Bending strength, Impact strength) for the resultant composite reinforced with 10, 20 and 30 vol.% of bamboo fibers, as compared with received material. With the natural reinforcement, the optimum mechanical properties in comparison with the as received epoxy were achieved. The results indicated that the tensile strength increased from 13.51 MPa to 33.50 MPa (that is a percentage increase of 150 %), also the bending strength increased from 24.25 MPa to 44.5 MPa (that is a percentage increase about 83 %), as well as, the increase of the impact strength from 41 kJ/m2 to 69 kJ/m2 (that is a percentage increase about 68 %).


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