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The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study
To make better use of fiber reinforced polymer composites in automotive applications, a clearer knowledge of its interfacial properties under dynamic and thermal loadings is necessary. In the present study, the interfacial behavior of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites under differ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31717858 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11111766 |
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author | Zhang, Muhan Jiang, Bingyan Chen, Chao Drummer, Dietmar Zhai, Zhanyu |
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description | To make better use of fiber reinforced polymer composites in automotive applications, a clearer knowledge of its interfacial properties under dynamic and thermal loadings is necessary. In the present study, the interfacial behavior of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites under different loading temperatures and strain rates were investigated via molecular dynamics simulation. The simulation results reveal that PP molecules move easily to fit tensile deformation at higher temperatures, resulting in a lower interfacial strength of glass fiber–PP interface. The interfacial strength is enhanced with increasing strain rate because the atoms do not have enough time to relax at higher strain rates. In addition, the non-bonded interaction energy plays a crucial role during the tensile deformation of composites. The damage evolution of glass fiber–PP interface follows Weibull’s distribution. At elevated temperatures, tensile loading is more likely to cause cohesive failure because the mechanical property of PP is lower than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. However, at higher strain rates, the primary failure mode is interfacial failure because the strain rate dependency of PP is more pronounced than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. The relationship between the failure modes and loading conditions obtained by molecular dynamics simulation is consistent with the author’s previous experimental studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-69182612019-12-24 The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study Zhang, Muhan Jiang, Bingyan Chen, Chao Drummer, Dietmar Zhai, Zhanyu Polymers (Basel) Article To make better use of fiber reinforced polymer composites in automotive applications, a clearer knowledge of its interfacial properties under dynamic and thermal loadings is necessary. In the present study, the interfacial behavior of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites under different loading temperatures and strain rates were investigated via molecular dynamics simulation. The simulation results reveal that PP molecules move easily to fit tensile deformation at higher temperatures, resulting in a lower interfacial strength of glass fiber–PP interface. The interfacial strength is enhanced with increasing strain rate because the atoms do not have enough time to relax at higher strain rates. In addition, the non-bonded interaction energy plays a crucial role during the tensile deformation of composites. The damage evolution of glass fiber–PP interface follows Weibull’s distribution. At elevated temperatures, tensile loading is more likely to cause cohesive failure because the mechanical property of PP is lower than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. However, at higher strain rates, the primary failure mode is interfacial failure because the strain rate dependency of PP is more pronounced than that of the glass fiber–PP interface. The relationship between the failure modes and loading conditions obtained by molecular dynamics simulation is consistent with the author’s previous experimental studies. MDPI 2019-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6918261/ /pubmed/31717858 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11111766 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Muhan Jiang, Bingyan Chen, Chao Drummer, Dietmar Zhai, Zhanyu The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title | The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title_full | The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title_short | The Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Interfacial Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Composites: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
title_sort | effect of temperature and strain rate on the interfacial behavior of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene composites: a molecular dynamics study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31717858 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11111766 |
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