Open Access
Subscription or Fee Access
Optimization of Consolidation Temperature and Time for Self Reinforced High-density Polyethylene Composite
Abstract
Demand for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) for industrial production of domestic and commercial commodities has made it necessary to find ways of improving its mechanical properties. A viable approach towards this is the addition of reinforcements such as glass fibers. However, glass fiber reinforced composites suffer limitations because of reduced recyclability, great weight and difficult to thermo-form. In order to improve properties such as specific strength, stiffness and thermoformability of the composite and maintain recyclability, self-reinforced HDPE composites are considered as an alternative to glass fiber reinforced HDPE. In this study, self-reinforced highdensity polyethylene composite was fabricated by film stacking HDPE films and HDPE fibers under carefully controlled temperatures (128–142ºC), pressure (2MPa) and time (100 seconds to 350 seconds). Test results indicated that an optimum temperature of 133⁰C and an optimum time of 300s showed effective self-reinforcement.
Keywords
References
Alcock B, Cabrera NO, Barkoula N-M, Wang Z, Peijs T. The effect of temperature and strain rate on the impact performance of recyclable all-polypropylene composites. Compos B Eng. 2008;39(3):537–47. doi: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2007.03.003.
Amer MS, Ganapathiraju S. Effects of processing parameters on axial stiffness of a self reinforced polyethylene composites. J Appl Polym Sci. 2001;81(5):1136–41. doi: 10.1002/app.1536.
Barkoula N-M, Schimanski T, Loos J, et al. Processing of single polymer composites using the concept of constrained fibers. Polym Compos. 2004;26(1):114–20.
Bastiaansen CW, Lemstra PJ. Melting behavior of gel-spun/drawn-polyolefins. Macromol Symp.1989;28(1):73–84.
Chen JC, Wu CM, Pu FC, Chiu CH. Fabrication and mechanical properties of self reinforced polyethylene terephthalate composite. Express Polym Lett. 2011;5(3):228–37. doi: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2011.22.
De Candia F, Romano G, Vittoria V, Peterlin A. Shrinkage and retractive force of drawn isotactic polypropylene during heating. J Appl Polym Sci. 1985;30(10):4159–73. doi:10.1002/app.1985.070301017.
Houshyar S, Shanks RA, Hodzic A. Influence of different woven geometry in poly(propylene)woven composites. Macromol Mater Eng. 2005;290(1):45–52. doi: 10.1002/mame.200400158.
Izer A, Barany T. Effects of consolidation on the flexural creep behavior of all-polyproplyne composite. Express Polym Lett. 2010;4(4):210–6. doi: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2010.27.
Kmetty Á, Bárány T, Karger-Kocsis J. Self-reinforced polymeric materials: a review. Prog Polym Sci. 2010;35(10):1288–310. doi: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2010.07.002.
Lester GH. History and physical chemistry of High density polyethylene. Plastic instate [online];2009. Available. Available from: https://plasticpipe.org/pdf/chapter-1 history and physical
chemistry of hdpe.pdf.
Matabola KP, DeVries AR, Moolman FS, Luyt AS. Single polymer composites a review. J Mater Sci. 2009;44(23):6213–22. doi: 10.1007/s10853–009–3792–1.
Matbase and innovation consultant; 2009. 22:39 IBIC innovative plastics [online] [cited Aug 182014]. Available from: http://www.matbase.com.
Morgan LM, Weager BM, Hare CM, et al. Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on Composite Materials: self reinforced polymer composites: coming of age. In: Edinburgh, UK:RSOC; 2009 July 27–31.
Yao D, Li R, Nagarajan P. Single-polymer composites based on slowly crystallizing polymers. Polym Eng Sci. 2006;46(9):1223–30. doi: 10.1002/pen.20583.
Samuels RJ. Polymer structure: the key to process-property control. Polym Eng Sci.1985;25(14):864–74. doi: 10.1002/pen.760251403.
Trznadel M, Pakula T, Kryszewski M. Thermally stimulated shrinkage forces in oriented polymers: 2. Time dependence. Polymer. 1985;26(7):1019–24. doi: 10.1016/0032–3861(85)90222–8.
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.