Development and characterisation of injection moulded, all-polypropylene composites

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-145

  Kmetty, A ^a,b   Tabi T ^a,b   Kovacs J G ^a   Barany T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

All polypropylene composites; Injection moulding; Polymer composites

Indexed keywords

ALL-POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES; FALLING-WEIGHT IMPACT TESTS; FIBRE CONTENT; FLOW DIRECTION; INJECTION MOULDED; MATRIX MATERIALS; MULTI-FILAMENT; ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE; PERFORATION ENERGY; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYPROPYLENE COPOLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT MATERIALS; SHRINKAGE TEST; STATIC TENSILE TESTS; THREE-STEP PROCESS;

COMPRESSION MOLDING; ETHYLENE; FILAMENT WINDING; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PELLETIZING; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOPLASTICS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84874072614     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2013.13     Document Type: Article

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