Impact fracture behavior of injection molded long glass fiber reinforced polypropylene

T. P. Skourlis, S. R. Mehta, C. Chassapis, S. Manoochehri

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Abstract

In this work the variation in Izod impact strength with spatial location was examined for injection molded long glass fiber polypropylene composite plaques. These plaques were fabricated at different sets of processing conditions, with injection speed and melt temperature being varied. By carefully machining test specimens, fifteen different plaque locations both in the in-flow and cross-flow directions were tested. The part morphology was described with the use of characteristic layer thickness ratios, i.e., the shell and the core to part thickness ratios, which were measured experimentally. It was shown that the variation in impact strength with sample location strongly correlates to shell to part thickness ratio. In addition, it was observed that different failure mechanisms exist for different fiber orientations, i.e., for fibers oriented transversely to the crack plane or on the crack plane itself. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the fracture surface was conducted and the results supported our findings on the microstructural level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)79-89
Number of pages11
JournalPolymer Engineering and Science
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998

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