Enhancement of fire retardancy performance of glass-fibre reinforced poly(ethylene terephthalate) composites with the incorporation of aluminum hypophosphite and melamine cyanurate

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1057-1065

  Yang, Wei ^a,b   Song, Lei ^a   Hu, Yuan ^a   Lu, Hongdian ^a,c   Yuen, Richard K K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Hybrid; A. Polymer matrix composites; B. High temperature properties; D. Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

A. HYBRID; A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES; B. HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; CONDENSED PHASE; D. THERMAL ANALYSIS; DILUTION EFFECT; FIRE RETARDANCY; FLAME RETARDANCY; GASPHASE; HEAT RELEASE; LIMITED OXYGEN INDEX; LOW LOADING; MELAMINE CYANURATE; MICROSCALE COMBUSTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TOXIC GAS;

ALUMINUM; ETHYLENE; FIRE HAZARDS; GLASS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PYROLYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 79956123151     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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