Hybrid Short Glass Fibre Composites Reinforced with Silica Micro-particles

Lenir Abreu Júnior, Rodrigo Teixeira Freire, Pablo Resende Oliveira, André Luis Christoforo, Carlos Thomas Garcia, Gilberto Garcia del Pino, Tulio Hallak Panzera

Article ID: 1191
Vol 3, Issue 1, 2020, Article identifier:6–16

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This work investigates epoxy composites reinforced by randomly oriented, short glass fibres and silica microparticles. A full-factorial experiment evaluates the effects of glass fibre mass fraction (15 and 20 wt%) and length (5 and 10 mm), and the mass fraction of silica microparticles (5 and 10 wt%) on the apparent density and porosity, as well as the compressive and tensile strength and modulus of the hybrid composites. Hybrid epoxy composites present significantly higher tensile strength (9%) and modulus (57%), as well as compressive strength (up to 15%) relative to pure epoxy.


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Hybrid Composites; Silica Microparticles; Short Glass Fibres; Design of Experiments; Mechanical and Physical Characterisation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24294/jpse.v3i1.1191

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