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Moisture uptake and resulting mechanical response of biobased composites. I. constituents
Author(s) -
Pupure Liva,
Doroudgarian Newsha,
Joffe Roberts
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
polymer composites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1548-0569
pISSN - 0272-8397
DOI - 10.1002/pc.22762
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , thermosetting polymer , epoxy , charpy impact test , ultimate tensile strength , flexural strength , moisture , toughness , izod impact strength test , cellulose , chemical engineering , engineering
The mechanical properties of the biobased fiber and resins have been characterized and moisture influence on the behavior of these materials has been studied. Commercially available biobased thermoset resins (Tribest, EpoBioX, Palapreg, Envirez SA, and Envirez SB) and regenerated cellulose fibers (Cordenka) have been conditioned at different levels of relative humidity (as received, dried, 41, 70, and 90%) to obtain materials with different moisture content. The following properties of polymers were measured: tensile, flexural (3P‐bending), impact strength (unnotched Charpy), and fracture toughness (compact tension). The results of characterization of biobased thermosets were compared against data for epoxy Araldite LY556, which is used as reference resin. RCF bundles (with and without twist, extracted from fabric) as well as single fibers separated from these bundles were tested in tension. In general biobased resins performed well, moreover EpoBioX showed better properties than synthetic epoxy. POLYM. COMPOS., 35:1150–1159, 2014. © 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers