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“Fundamental” and “practical” adhesion in polymer-fiber systems

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The relationship between adhesion and bond strength in thin fiber-polymer matrix systems was studied. Adhesive interaction in composite materials was analyzed within the scope of thermodynamic and molecular-kinetic theories of adhesion. Methods based on wetting are shown to give poor estimation of the work of adhesion in fiber-polymer systems, which is due to their low sensibility to donor-acceptor interactions taking place at the interface. Important information about the acidity and basicity of contacting surfaces can be obtained by using inverse gas chromatography to investigate the thermodynamics of adsorption. The calculation of the work of adhesion including acid-base interactions shows the best agreement with the bond strength in the same systems. The local (ultimate) interfacial shear strength is proposed to characterize the quality of fiber-matrix bonding. Analysis of the relationship between the work of adhesion and adhesive pressure for various systems allowed us to differentiate the dispersive and acid-base components of the local bond strength as well as to estimate distances characteristic of these two

Types of interaction. For dispersive forces, our estimation gives 7–8Å, i.e., of an order of magnitude of the center-to-center distance for van der Waals interactions. At the same time, the acid-base

Interactions have a characteristic range of 4–5Å and can be attributed to hydrogen bonding. The agreement between the calculated distances and literature data is evidence for the applicability of the proposed method to the analysis of the adhesive interaction in fibrous polymer composites.

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  1. Institute of Polymer Research, 6 Hohe St., 01069, Dresden, Germany

    V. Dutschk, E. Pisanova, S. Zhandarov & B. Lauke

  2. Metal-Polymer Research Institute, Belarus Academy of Sciences, 32a Kirov St., 246652, Gomel, Belarus

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Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 431–446, July–August, 1998.

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Dutschk, V., Pisanova, E., Zhandarov, S. et al. “Fundamental” and “practical” adhesion in polymer-fiber systems. Mech Compos Mater 34, 309–320 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02257899

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