Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Rajulu, A. V.
Right arrow Articles by Zhang, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Tensile Properties of Glass Rovings/Hydroxyl Terminated Polyester Toughened Epoxy Composites

A. Varada Rajulu

Department of Polymer Science and Technology, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur 515 003, India

S. V. Sanjeev Kumar

Department of Polymer Science and Technology, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur 515 003, India

G. Babu Rao

Department of Polymer Science and Technology, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur 515 003, India

G. M. Shashidhara

Department of Polymer Science and Technology, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore 570 006, India

Jiasong He

State Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 P.R. China

Jun Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 P.R. China

Epoxy was toughened with 5% hydroxyl terminated polyester and different layers of glass woven rovings were reinforced into this matrix. Their tensile strength was determined. The variation of the tensile strength with weight fraction of the rovings was studied. The tensile strength was found to increase with rovings content. The morphology of the cryogenically fractured surfaces indicated good bonding between the matrix and the reinforcement when a coupling agent was used.

Key Words: glass woven rovings • epoxy • hydroxyl terminated polyester • blend • tensile strength • composites

Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 21, No. 17, 1591-1596 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0731684402021017494
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?