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Title: A validation of the fibre orientation and fibre length attrition prediction for long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics

Abstract

To improve the mechanical performance of polymeric parts, fibre reinforcement has established in industrial applications during the last decades. Next to the widely used Short Fibre-reinforced Thermoplastics (SFT) the use of Long Fibre-reinforced Thermoplastics (LFT) is increasingly growing. Especially for non-polar polymeric matrices like polypropylene (PP), longer fibres can significantly improve the mechanical performance. As with every kind of discontinuous fibre reinforcement the fibre orientations (FO) show a high impact on the mechanical properties. On the contrary to SFT where the local fibre length distribution (FLD) can be often neglected, for LFT the FLD show a high impact on the material’s properties and has to be taken into account in equal measure to the FOD. Recently numerical models are available in commercial filling simulation software and allow predicting both the local FOD and FLD in LFT parts. The aim of this paper is to compare i.) the FOD results and ii) the FLD results from available orientation- and fibre length attrition-models to those obtained from experimental data. The investigations are conducted by the use of different injection moulded specimens made from long glass fibre reinforced PP. In order to determine the FOD, selected part sections are examined by means ofmore » Computed Tomographic (CT) analyses. The fully three dimensional measurement of the FOD is then performed by digital image processing using grey scale correlation. The FLD results are also obtained by using digital image processing after a thermal pyrolytic separation of the polymeric matrix from the fibres. Further the FOD and the FLD are predicted by using a reduced strain closure (RSC) as well as an anisotropic rotary diffusion - reduced strain closure model (ARD-RSC) and Phelps-Tucker fibre length attrition model implemented in the commercial filling software Moldflow, Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA.« less

Authors:
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  1. Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University, Pontstr. 49, 52062 Aachen (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22391852
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1664; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: PPS-30: 30. International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society, Cleveland, OH (United States), 6-12 Jun 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ANISOTROPY; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CORRELATIONS; DIFFUSION; FIBERS; GLASS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LENGTH; M CODES; MATRIX MATERIALS; ORIENTATION; POLYPROPYLENE; REINFORCED MATERIALS; STRAINS; THERMOPLASTICS

Citation Formats

Hopmann, Ch., Weber, M., Haag, J. van, and Schöngart, M. A validation of the fibre orientation and fibre length attrition prediction for long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4918412.
Hopmann, Ch., Weber, M., Haag, J. van, & Schöngart, M. A validation of the fibre orientation and fibre length attrition prediction for long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918412
Hopmann, Ch., Weber, M., Haag, J. van, and Schöngart, M. 2015. "A validation of the fibre orientation and fibre length attrition prediction for long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918412.
@article{osti_22391852,
title = {A validation of the fibre orientation and fibre length attrition prediction for long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics},
author = {Hopmann, Ch. and Weber, M. and Haag, J. van and Schöngart, M.},
abstractNote = {To improve the mechanical performance of polymeric parts, fibre reinforcement has established in industrial applications during the last decades. Next to the widely used Short Fibre-reinforced Thermoplastics (SFT) the use of Long Fibre-reinforced Thermoplastics (LFT) is increasingly growing. Especially for non-polar polymeric matrices like polypropylene (PP), longer fibres can significantly improve the mechanical performance. As with every kind of discontinuous fibre reinforcement the fibre orientations (FO) show a high impact on the mechanical properties. On the contrary to SFT where the local fibre length distribution (FLD) can be often neglected, for LFT the FLD show a high impact on the material’s properties and has to be taken into account in equal measure to the FOD. Recently numerical models are available in commercial filling simulation software and allow predicting both the local FOD and FLD in LFT parts. The aim of this paper is to compare i.) the FOD results and ii) the FLD results from available orientation- and fibre length attrition-models to those obtained from experimental data. The investigations are conducted by the use of different injection moulded specimens made from long glass fibre reinforced PP. In order to determine the FOD, selected part sections are examined by means of Computed Tomographic (CT) analyses. The fully three dimensional measurement of the FOD is then performed by digital image processing using grey scale correlation. The FLD results are also obtained by using digital image processing after a thermal pyrolytic separation of the polymeric matrix from the fibres. Further the FOD and the FLD are predicted by using a reduced strain closure (RSC) as well as an anisotropic rotary diffusion - reduced strain closure model (ARD-RSC) and Phelps-Tucker fibre length attrition model implemented in the commercial filling software Moldflow, Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4918412},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22391852}, journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 1664,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}