Orientation effects during the flow of short-fibre reinforced thermoplastics |
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Authors: | MJ Folkes DAM Russell |
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Affiliation: | Department of Non-Metallic Materials, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK |
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Abstract: | A study has been carried out to investigate molecular orientation in injection moulded bars of short glass fibre reinforced polypropylene and polyethylene. For the range of fibre concentrations encountered commercially, the fibres do not appear to have any direct effect on the matrix orientation. As the fibre concentration increases, however, the matrix orientation becomes dominated by the orientation of the fibres. These effects are interpreted in terms of current ideas of the rheology of polymer melts during injection moulding and the crystallization of polymers at fibre surfaces. |
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