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An Investigation of the Influence of Interface Chemical Structure on Fiber/Matrix Adhesion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Dharmaraj Raghavan
Dharmaraj Raghavan*
Affiliation:
draghavan@howard.edu, Howard, Chemistry, 525 College Street, NW, Washington DC, DC, 20059, United States
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Abstract

The primary objective of the study is to investigate the impact of chemical structure at the interface on the interface strength of fiber/matrix composite. A solvent based method was used to deposit trichlorosilane on E-glass fiber surfaces followed by in situ modification of the deposited layer to prepare pure and mixed amine undecyl self assembled monolayer (SAM). The extent of fiber/matrix adhesion was determined by performing single fiber fragmentation test (SFFT). The SFFT data indicate that ≈ 85 % of fiber breaks obtained for epoxy composite occurs at a much lower mass fraction of amine coverage for SAM while a similar number of fiber breaks occur at a much higher mass fraction of amine coverage for aqueous solution deposited coupling agent system.

Keywords

compositeadhesionbonding
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 977: Symposium FF – Processing-Structure-Mechanical Property Relations in Composite Materials , 2006 , 977-FF11-09
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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