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Coated fibre composites using rubbery and ductile fibre/matrix interlayers
thesis
posted on 2018-05-21, 09:53 authored by Jagminder DhillonAdvanced composite materials possessing high specific stiffness and
strength have been successfully employed as structural materials in
the aerospace, military and automotive industries. Despite the
advantages that composites have over other materials, further development has been restricted by their brittleness. The aim of this
research project was to improve the energy absorbing capabilities of
unidirectional glass fibre epoxy resin composites by coating the
fibres with an interlayer. UHMWPE was used as the interlayer because
of its outstanding toughness while EPDM of low modulus was used to
assess the difference between energy absorption through plastic
deformations (UHMWPE) and highly elastic deformations (EPDM). [Continues.]
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Materials
Publisher
© Jagminder DhillonPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1991Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en