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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K81881/01
Title:	QUANTIFICATION OF FIBRE-MATRIX ADHESION FOR CORRELATION OF POLYMER COMPOSITE
Principal Investigator:	Jones, Professor FR
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Project Partners:	Advanced Composites Group Ltd
Department:	Materials Science and Engineering
Organisation:	University of Sheffield
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 1996	Ends:	30 September 1999	Value (£):	167,416
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Processing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Aerospace, Defence and Marine Manufacturing Construction Transport Systems and Vehicles Water
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A good fibre-matrix adhesion test is required for progress in correlating composite mechanical properties with an interfacial parameter. the modified plasticity effect model will be compared to the energy model of Wagner, for the evaluation and quantification of the interface and/or interphase. Careful examination of the failure processes in a non-saturation fragmentation test will enable the stress transfer process to be described exactly and modelled as an imperfect interface. The model will be expanded to take into account the overlapping spheres of influence of adjacent fibres and in this way, composite properties and the interfacial stress transfer process correlated.
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