TY - GEN
T1 - Tensile strength of glass microballon-epoxy resin syntactic foams
AU - Gupta, Nikhil
AU - Nagorny, Ruslan
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The effect of microballoon volume fraction on the tensile properties and fracture mode of syntactic foams is characterized in the present research. Two types of glass microballoons, having 220 and 460 kg/m3 density, are used with epoxy resin matrix for making the syntactic foam samples. These foams contain 30%, 40%, 50% and 60% microballoons by volume. Both types of microballoons have the same size but different wall thickness, which reflects as a difference in their density. It is observed that the tensile strength and modulus increases with a decrease in the volume fraction of microballoons in the syntactic foams. The syntactic foams containing weaker microballoons showed lower modulus but higher strength compared to the syntactic foams containing stronger microballoons.
AB - The effect of microballoon volume fraction on the tensile properties and fracture mode of syntactic foams is characterized in the present research. Two types of glass microballoons, having 220 and 460 kg/m3 density, are used with epoxy resin matrix for making the syntactic foam samples. These foams contain 30%, 40%, 50% and 60% microballoons by volume. Both types of microballoons have the same size but different wall thickness, which reflects as a difference in their density. It is observed that the tensile strength and modulus increases with a decrease in the volume fraction of microballoons in the syntactic foams. The syntactic foams containing weaker microballoons showed lower modulus but higher strength compared to the syntactic foams containing stronger microballoons.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871013680
SN - 9781622762828
T3 - 20th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2005
SP - 116
EP - 122
BT - 20th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2005
T2 - 20th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2005
Y2 - 7 September 2005 through 9 September 2005
ER -