Journal
COMPOSITE INTERFACES
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 695-709Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09276440.2021.2011593
Keywords
Glass fibres; Vinyl ester resin; Interface; interphase; Interfacial shear strength; Microbond test
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Funding
- Horizon 2020 [761072]
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Careful sample preparation is crucial in ensuring that the results obtained from the microbond test accurately reflect the true material characteristics, and are not influenced by artifacts of preparation techniques. Higher IFSS values were achieved by adjusting the cure schedule and using glass fibers with a full sizing treatment.
The microbond test was used to investigate the interface strength (IFSS) in various glass fibre-vinylester (VE) composite systems and a number of issues related to the sample preparation were identified. Cure schedules that produce well-reacted VE polymers on the macroscale did not result in cured microdroplets. Hence, the microbond test could not be carried out on samples with the same cure history as macroscale composites. Testable microdroplet samples could only be obtained when resin cure was carried out under an inert atmosphere. Higher IFSS values were obtained by raising the final temperature of the cure schedule. Glass fibres with a full sizing gave significantly higher apparent IFSS values comparedf to bare fibres or fibre coated with only silane coupling agent. It was discovered that the measured IFSS of VE compatible glass fibres was approximately doubled when fibres were mounted using epoxy glue instead of cyanoacrylate glue. This phenomenon appears to be related to the deposition of cyanoacrylate vapours onto the surface of the fibres during sample preparation. It is concluded that great care must be taken in ensuring that effects observed using the microbond test are evidence of real material characteristics and not artefacts of sample preparation.
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