Influence of the automotive paint shop on mechanical properties of continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics

Continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics offer advantages over their thermoset counterparts. Thermoplastics are often overlooked, as they must pass through the high temperature automotive paint shop for application in structural body parts. Tensile-, flexural-, and impact properties of polyamide 6...

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Published inComposite structures Vol. 208; pp. 557 - 565
Main Authors Grätzl, T., van Dijk, Y., Schramm, N., Kroll, L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 15.01.2019
Subjects
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Polyamide
Thermoplastic composites
Thermoplastic matrix
Thermoplastic composites
Polyamide
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Thermoplastic matrix
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Summary:Continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics offer advantages over their thermoset counterparts. Thermoplastics are often overlooked, as they must pass through the high temperature automotive paint shop for application in structural body parts. Tensile-, flexural-, and impact properties of polyamide 6, polyamide 66, and polyphthalamide reinforced with woven glass fibre fabrics were investigated. It is shown that the entire painting process mostly yielded a predominant improvement on the investigated mechanical properties of glass fibre-reinforced polyamide 6 due to a raised degree in crystallinity. There is no unanimous trend visible for glass fibre-reinforced polyamide 66. The examined shear properties of glass fibre-reinforced polyphthalamide were decreased by the painting process.
ISSN:0263-8223
1879-1085
DOI:10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.10.052