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Mechanical properties of injection moulded styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) Part II Influence of short glass fibres and weldlines

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The dependence of the various mechanical and fracture properties on the volume fraction ofshort glass fibres in the styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) polymer was investigated. Special attention has been given to describing the dependence of various mechanical properties on the volume fraction of the glass fibres, ϕf by way of the rule of mixtures. It was found that, strength, elastic modulus and fracture toughness, all follow a simple rule-of-mixtures of the form Qc=λQfϕf+Qm(1−ϕf), where Qc is the measured quantity for the composite, Qm and Qf are the corresponding values for the matrix and the fibre, respectively, and λ is the overall efficiency of the fibres, taking into account the orientation and the length of the fibres in the composite. It was also found that, while the presence of the weldline had no significant effect upon elastic modulus, its presence significantly reduced tensile strength and the fracture toughness of SMA and its composites. © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Chrysostomou, A., Hashemi, S. Mechanical properties of injection moulded styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) Part II Influence of short glass fibres and weldlines. Journal of Materials Science 33, 4491–4501 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004487814709

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