Modeling of strength and stiffness of short randomly oriented glass fiber-polypropylene composites

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1805-1821

  Taha, Iman ^a   Abdin, Yasmine F ^b  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^b The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

glass fibers; mathematical modeling; polymer composites; rule of mixtures

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX CLASS; COMPOSITE STIFFNESS; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER-MATRIX BONDING; FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE; IMPROVED MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MATRIX; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; NEW MODEL; POLYMER COMPOSITES; PROCESSING CONDITION; RULE OF MIXTURE; SHORT FIBER; SHORT-FIBER POLYMER COMPOSITES; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

BONDING; CARBON FIBERS; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; REINFORCED PLASTICS; STIFFNESS; THERMOPLASTICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79961162156     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998310389089     Document Type: Article

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