Hybrid glass fibre reinforced composites with micro and poly-diallyldimethylammonium chloride (PDDA) functionalized nano silica inclusions

Julio C. Santos, Luciano M. G. Vieira, Tulio H. Panzera*, Marco A. Schiavon, Andre L. Christoforo, Fabrizio Scarpa

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This work investigates the effect of using functionalised poly-diallyldimethylammonium chloride (PDDA) silica micro and nanoparticles on the apparent density, tensile and flexural strength and modulus of hybrid glass fibre reinforced composites. The work is carried out using a Design of Experiment (DoE) approach on a population of 60 composite specimens produced according the size of the nanoparticles and their weight fraction. A 2% of weight fraction of functionalised silica nanoparticles is shown to reduce the flexural strength and density of the composites, but to maximise significantly both the tensile, flexural modulus and tensile strength of the hybrid glass fibre materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)543-549
Number of pages7
JournalMaterials and Design
Volume65
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2015

Keywords

  • Hybrid
  • Particle-reinforcement
  • Statistical methods
  • Mechanical testing
  • Chemical/thermal analysis
  • MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES
  • EPOXY
  • MATRIX
  • NANOCOMPOSITES
  • NANOPARTICLES
  • INTERFACE

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