This study analyzed the viscoelastic creep properties of polymers and polymer matrix composites (PMCs) reinforced with short fibers through flexural and tensile creep estimations. A three-parameter model was used to represent the linear viscoelastic behavior of polypropylene. Finite element analysis was applied to obtain mechanical properties like strain, modulus, and compliance. Materials tested included unreinforced polypropylene and polypropylene reinforced with aligned or random short E-glass fibers. The Halpin-Tsai equation improved modulus and decreased strain/compliance for reinforced PMCs, while the modified rule of mixtures increased strain/compliance but kept modulus constant according to tensile creep results.
This study analyzed the viscoelastic creep properties of polymers and polymer matrix composites (PMCs) reinforced with short fibers through flexural and tensile creep estimations. A three-parameter model was used to represent the linear viscoelastic behavior of polypropylene. Finite element analysis was applied to obtain mechanical properties like strain, modulus, and compliance. Materials tested included unreinforced polypropylene and polypropylene reinforced with aligned or random short E-glass fibers. The Halpin-Tsai equation improved modulus and decreased strain/compliance for reinforced PMCs, while the modified rule of mixtures increased strain/compliance but kept modulus constant according to tensile creep results.
This study analyzed the viscoelastic creep properties of polymers and polymer matrix composites (PMCs) reinforced with short fibers through flexural and tensile creep estimations. A three-parameter model was used to represent the linear viscoelastic behavior of polypropylene. Finite element analysis was applied to obtain mechanical properties like strain, modulus, and compliance. Materials tested included unreinforced polypropylene and polypropylene reinforced with aligned or random short E-glass fibers. The Halpin-Tsai equation improved modulus and decreased strain/compliance for reinforced PMCs, while the modified rule of mixtures increased strain/compliance but kept modulus constant according to tensile creep results.
In this research project, flexural creep and tensile creep
estimations were carried out at constant room temperature and at a time range between (1-109) seconds to measure the viscoelastic creep properties of polymer and polymeric material reinforced with short fibers. The present work is a theoretical macromechanics study, which concentrates on linear viscoelastic creep behavior of polypropylene and short E-glass fiber reinforced polypropylene. The loading cases are externally applied concentrated loads and the deformations have been limited with small strains. In this investigation, a three-parameter model is used as a mathematical viscoelastic model to represent the linear viscoelastic behavior of polypropylene and will not yet reach to permanent deformation. Through this analysis, the finite element method as a numerical method is applied to obtain the mechanical properties. Galerkin finite element method has been adopted for the derivation of governing equation. Two finite element computer programs in Quick Basic language have been designed to obtain the mechanical properties that represented by strain, modulus, and compliance from flexural creep and tensile creep estimations. The material systems that have been chosen for this study are: -Isotropic unreinforced polypropylene. -Polypropylene reinforced with aligned short E-glass fibers. -Polypropylene reinforced with random short E-glass fibers. The principle of time-temperature equivalence has been applied and observed from the mechanical properties of polymer and PMC. IX
Halpin-Tsai equation has been shown an improvement the
modulus and decrease in the strain and compliance values for PMC reinforced with short fibers in both aligned and random reinforcement through flexural creep and tensile creep estimations. On the other hand, the modified rule of mixtures has been shown increasing in strain and compliance values and constancy in modulus according to tensile creep estimation while the same method has been proved the slight effect of reinforcement on PMC properties due to flexural creep estimation.