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The Interphase in Fibre Reinforced Polymers; New Ideas on How This Controls the Composite Strength

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Michael R. Piggott
Michael R. Piggott*
Affiliation:
Advanced Composites Physics & Chemistry Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A4
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Abstract

Much work has recently been done on the interphases between fibres and polymers and it is now clear that they are usually brittle. This requires a re-examination of our basic ideas on how composites achieve their strength. The Kelly-Tyson approach, which is based on ductile metal behaviour, has never received unequivocal support. In addition, work during the last ten years in the author's laboratories indicates that it is incorrect in one of its major predictions: that the stress-strain plots of short aligned fibre composites should be curves. In this paper we present the evidence and introduce a new failure model which eliminates these difficulties.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 305: Symposium I – High-Performance Polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites , 1993 , 95
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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