Abstract
To study the water absorption of hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) composite epoxy resin solid buoyancy materials in the marine environment and its effect on the mechanical properties, the water absorption was measured by immersing the material in distilled water for 36 days at ambient temperature and fitted to Fick’s second law. The strength of materials before and after water absorption were tested by uniaxial experiments, and the effects of the filling ratio and water absorption on the mechanical properties of the materials were analyzed and explained. Finally, the failure modes and mechanism of the hollow glass microspheres composite material were explicated from the microscopic level by scanning electron microscope (SEM). This research will help solve the problems of solid buoyancy materials in ocean engineering applications.
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Foundation item: This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (Grant No. 2021-MS-109).
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Ding, Y., Zhai, Gj., Ma, Z. et al. Effect of Water Absorption on the Mechanical Property and Failure Mechanism of Hollow Glass Microspheres Composite Epoxy Resin Solid Buoyancy Materials. China Ocean Eng 37, 876–884 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-023-0073-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-023-0073-8