Fracture behaviour of discontinuous long glass fibre reinforced injection moulded polypropylene

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 167-175

  Mouzakis, Dionysios E ^b   Harmia, Tapio ^a   Karger Kocsis, József ^b  

^a FACT GmbH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INJECTION MOLDING; PLASTICS MOLDING; POLYPROPYLENES;

ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE (EWF) METHOD; INSTRUMENTED FALLING WEIGHT IMPACT (IFWI) TOUGHNESS;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0033880625     PISSN: 09673911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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