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Impact fracture behavior of PP/EPDM/glass bead ternary composites
Author(s) -
Liang J. Z.,
Li R. K. Y.,
Tjong S. C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.11343
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , izod impact strength test , maleic anhydride , bead , volume fraction , ternary operation , polypropylene , copolymer , flexural strength , epdm rubber , natural rubber , polymer , ultimate tensile strength , computer science , programming language
The effects of glass bead filler content and surface treatment of the glass with a silane coupling agent on the room temperature impact fracture behavior of polypropylene (PP)/ethylene‐propylene‐diene monomer copolymer (EPDM)/glass bead(GB) ternary composites were determined. The volume fraction of EPDM was kept constant at 10%. The impact fracture energy and impact strength of the composites increased with increasing volume fraction of glass beads (ϕ g ). Surface pretreatment of the glass beads had an insignificant effect on the impact behavior. For a fixed filler content, the best impact strength was achieved when untreated glass beads and a maleic anhydride modified EPDM were used. The impact strength exhibited a maximum value at ϕ g =15%. Morphology/impact property relationships and an explanation of the toughening mechanisms were developed by comparing the impact properties with scanning electron micrographs of fracture surfaces.

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