Kishore, * and Shankar, Ravi and Sankaran, S (2005) Short-Beam Three-Point Bend Tests in Syntactic Foams. Part II: Effect of Microballoons Content on Shear Strength. In: Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 98 . pp. 680-686.
Epoxy binders containing microballoons ranging from 38.5 to 57.7% by volume were cast in a mold and cured, and the resulting slabs were sectioned to yield short-beam test coupons. The strength changes with microballoons content were noted. These reveal an increase from 3.87 to 5.79 MPa for a decrease in microballoons content from 57.7 to 38.5%. Mechanical data were correlated with fractographic features employing scanning electron microscope. The failure features involving the microballoons and interface regions are highlighted in this article. The works show the existence of a dependence of strength parameters on the inter-microballoon distances.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Additional Information:||The copyright belongs to Wiley Periodicals Inc.|
|Keywords:||composites;shear;microballoons content;sbt strength;density|
|Department/Centre:||Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)|
|Date Deposited:||18 Aug 2005|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 04:19|
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