Novel aluminised E-glass fibre reinforced unsaturated polyester composites, originally formulated for enhanced thermal and electrical shielding properties were evaluated in terms of their thermal performance. The thermal degradation of these specimens was analysed using a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA). The samples were heated from ambient temperature to 500 1C at a heating rate of 20 1C/min....

Over the last years, the demand for high strength and low weight materials, such as fabric-reinforced plastics, has grown in the aeronautical industry. By decreasing the production cost with short production cycle times and increasing reproducibility by automation, fabric-reinforced plastics are becoming increasingly better economical competitors to other construction materials such as for exam...

This study investigates the effect of water absorption on flexural strength kenaf/ glass/unsaturated polyester (UPE) hybrid composite solid round rods used for insulating material applications. Three volume fractions kenaf/glass fibre 20:80 (KGPE20), 30:70 (KGPE30), and 40:60 (KGPE40) with three different arrangement profiles kenaf fibres were fabricated by using pultrusion technique aimed at s...

A fibre glass reinforced polymer was developed, using epoxy resin as the matrix material and E-glass reinforcement, by hand laying method. Different set of composite were produced varying weight percentage (wt%) addition reinforcement to follows 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% 50%. The polymeric so subjected various mechanical property tests hardness, tensile, impact, tests. hardness test conducted TQ SM100...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this in vitro study was to determine the load and deflection at failure of different lingual retainers bonded with composite to enamel in a standardized three-point bending test. The results were rationalized with finite element analysis (FEA) models. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four types of multistranded wires, Dead Soft Respond, Twisted ligature, Penta-One, Gold-plated Penta...

The thermal expansion behaviour of silicon carbide (SCS-2) fibre reinforced 6061 aluminium matrix composite subjected to the influenced thermal mechanical cycling (TMC) process were investigated. The thermal stress has important effect on the longitudinal thermal expansion coefficient of the composites. The present paper used experimental data of the thermal expansion behaviour of a SiC/Al comp...