Effect of environmental weathering on flexural creep behavior of long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2628-2640

  Chevali, Venkata S ^a,b   Dean, Derrick R ^a   Janowski, Gregg M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexural creep; Infrared spectroscopy; Long fiber thermoplastics; Moisture absorption; Polymer matrix composites; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER; CREEP BEHAVIORS; CREEP COMPLIANCE; FLEXURAL CREEP; FTIR; LONG FIBER; LONG FIBER THERMOPLASTICS; MOISTURE ABSORPTION; REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS; SEM; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATIONS; UV EXPOSURE; UV RADIATION;

CREEP; DESORPTION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FIBERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOISTURE; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOPLASTICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78649449916     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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