Impact fracture behavior of modified polypropylene/wood fiber composites

Polymer Testing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 581-589

  Hristov, V N ^a   Lach, R ^b   Grellmann, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METALLURGY   (Bulgaria)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fracture behavior; Instrumented impact test; Polypropylene wood fiber composites

Indexed keywords

BONDING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE; IMPACT TESTING; NATURAL FIBERS; TOUGHNESS;

FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; IMPACT MODIFIERS; INSTRUMENTED IMPACT TESTING; WOOD FIBER COMPOSITES;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 2642580799     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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