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The influence of coupling agent, fibre sizing and matrix degradation on the interfacial shear strength between carbon fibre and polypropylene (2014)
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Burn, D., Harper, L., Johnson, M., Warrior, N., Yang, L., & Thomason, J. (2014, June). The influence of coupling agent, fibre sizing and matrix degradation on the interfacial shear strength between carbon fibre and polypropylene. Paper presented at 16th European Conference on Composite Materials

The interface strength between carbon fibre (CF) and polypropylene (PP) was characterised using the microbond test. The effect of removing the sizing from the fibres, as well as introducing a maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (MAPP) coupling age... Read More about The influence of coupling agent, fibre sizing and matrix degradation on the interfacial shear strength between carbon fibre and polypropylene.

Studying the heterogeneity of discontinuous fiber composites using a new full-field strain measurement system (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Johanson, K., Harper, L. T., Johnson, M., Kennedy, A., & Warrior, N. A. (2013, July). Studying the heterogeneity of discontinuous fiber composites using a new full-field strain measurement system. Paper presented at ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, Montréal, Canada

In this paper a new multi camera digital image correlation (DIC) system is used to view strain fields from opposing surfaces of discontinuous carbon fiber composites loaded in tension. The system is investigated to understand if DIC can be used to co... Read More about Studying the heterogeneity of discontinuous fiber composites using a new full-field strain measurement system.