Effects of hygrothermal aging on the fracture and failure behavior in short glass fiber-reinforced, toughened poly(butylene terephthalate) composites

Polymer Composites

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 900-909

  Czigany T ^a,b   Mohd Ishak, Z A ^a,c   Heitz, T ^a,d   Karger Kocsis, J ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR VERBUNDWERKSTOFFE GMBH   (Germany)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c Universiti Sains Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; AGING OF MATERIALS; DRYING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYDROLYSIS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HYGROTHERMAL AGING; POLYBUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0030395425     PISSN: 02728397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pc.10683     Document Type: Article

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