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A Novel Method for Producing Light GMT Sheets by a Pneumatic Technique

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A novel method for producing a kind of light glass-mat- reinforced thermoplastic (GMT) sheets by using a pneumatic technique is presented. The tensile and flexural properties of produced light GMT sheets, with various lengths of glass fibers and PP content, were determined experimentally. Results of the experimental investigation show that the light GMT sheets are fully suitable for engineering applications.

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11372105), New Century Excellent Talents Program in University (NCET-13-0184), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Creative Research Groups of China (12JJ7001). The authors also wish to thank reviewers for their valuable comments.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Bodies, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    H.-L. Dai & Y.-N. Rao

  2. Department of Engineering Mechanics, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    H.-L. Dai & Y.-N. Rao

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 757-762 , July-August, 2015.

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Dai, HL., Rao, YN. A Novel Method for Producing Light GMT Sheets by a Pneumatic Technique. Mech Compos Mater 51, 539–542 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-015-9524-5

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