Elastic behaviour of plain and fibre-reinforced syntactic foams under compression

Karthikeyan, CS and Sankaran, S and Kishore, * (2004) Elastic behaviour of plain and fibre-reinforced syntactic foams under compression. In: Materials Letters, 58 (6). pp. 995-999.

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Abstract

Syntactic foams (SF) with 0, 0.9, 1.76, 2.54, 3.54 and 4.5 vol.% of E-glass fibres in the form of chopped strands were processed and subjected to compressive loading. It was found that introduction of chopped strand fibres into the syntactic foam system increases compressive modulus values. The values increased with the content of fibres in the system except for the one containing 3.54% of fibres, which showed a lower value than other fibre-reinforced systems, thus deviating from the trend. This exception was attributed to the difference in processing route adopted for this particular fibre-bearing foam. However, in general, the incorporation of chopped strand fibres improved the elastic property of the syntactic foam system without much variation in density as it is evident from the specific modulus values reported in this work.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Materials Letters
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	The copyright belongs to Elsevier.
Keywords:	Syntactic foam;Microballoons;Glass fibres;Compressive modulus;Specific modulus
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:28
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7159

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