Fracture study of the composite using essential work of fracture method: PP-SEBS-g-MA/E1 clay

Materials and Design

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 741-748

  Nekhlaoui, S ^b   Essabir, H ^a   Bensalah, M O ^b   Fassi Fehri, O ^b,c   Qaiss, A ^a   Bouhfid, R ^a  

^a Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c HASSAN II ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Clay; Essential work of fracture; Polymer matrix

Indexed keywords

BOND (MASONRY); CLAY; COUPLING AGENTS; DECOMPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; POLYMER MATRIX; POLYPROPYLENES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOANALYSIS;

DEGRADATION TEMPERATURES; DUCTILE COMPOSITES; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (DMA); ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE; ESSENTIAL WORK OF FRACTURE METHODS; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84882980959     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.07.089     Document Type: Article

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