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Title: | Effect of the talc filler content on the mechanical properties of polypropylene composites | ||||||||||
Author: | Lapčík, Lubomír; Jindrová, Pavlína; Lapčíková, Barbora; Tamblyn, Richard; Greenwood, Richard W.; Rowson, Neil Anthony | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 2008, vol. 110, issue 5, p. 2742-2747 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0021-8995 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/app.28797 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | This research examines the effect of a microsize/nanosize talc filler on the physicochemical and mechanical properties of filled polypropylene (108MF10 and 33MBTU from Saudi Basic Industries Corp. and HE125MO grade from Borealis) composite matrices. A range of mechanical properties were measured [tensile properties, bending properties, fracture toughness, notched impact strength (at the ambient temperature and -20 degrees C), strain at break, and impact strength] along with microhardness testing and thermal stability testing from 40 to 600 degrees C as measured by differential thermal analysis and thermogravimetric analysis. Increasing filler content lead to an increase in the mechanical strength of the composite material with a simultaneous decrease in the fracture toughness. The observed increase in tensile strength ranged from 15 to 25% (the maximum tensile strength at break was found to be 22 MPa). The increase in mechanical strength simultaneously led to a higher brittleness, which was reflected in a decrease in the mean impact strength from the initial 18 kJ/m(2) (for the virgin polypropylene sample) to 14 kJ/m(2), that is, a 23% decrease. A similar dependency was also obtained for the samples conditioned at -20 degrees C (a decrease of 12.5%). With increasing degree of filling of the talc-polypropylene composite matrix, the thermooxidative stability increased | ||||||||||
Full text: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.28797/abstract | ||||||||||
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