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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
卷 137, 期 -, 页码 162-172出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2017.01.010
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Wood flour; Weathering; Color; Roughness; Mechanical properties; Principal Component Analysis
This study aims to assess and understand simultaneously the changes in visual aspect, surface topography and mechanical properties of a wood flour reinforced polypropylene (PP) composite under natural and artificial weathering conditions. Compounds were produced through twin-screw extrusion followed by injection molding in order to obtain dog bone samples. A one-year natural outdoor exposure and a xenon-arc accelerated weathering were studied. As expected, mechanical performances are decreased under UV exposure. This performance degradation goes along with important changes in visual aspect. In addition to commonly used microscopy observations, other methods such as colorimetry, spectrogoniometry and confocal rugosimetry are used to characterize the surface aspect through color, gloss and roughness properties. These analyses revealed that ageing induces a surface bleaching, a wood particle protrusion and numerous micro-cracks. Moreover the chain scission attested by Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) and lixiviation on the surface induces roughness and gloss loss. Otherwise biocomposites were more degraded under natural weathering. This paper gives new insights in understanding how weathering affects physico-mechanical properties of wood plastic composites (WPC). For that, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) gives global overview about effects of type of weathering and wood rate on physical, mechanical and chemical properties by calculating their contributions to the drawing of axes (Principal Components) during PCA. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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