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An Investigation of the Influence of Interface ChemicalStructure on Fiber/Matrix Adhesion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Dharmaraj Raghavan*
Affiliation:
draghavan@howard.edu, Howard, Chemistry, 525 College Street, NW, Washington DC, DC, 20059, United States
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Abstract

The primary objective of the study is to investigate the impact of chemicalstructure at the interface on the interface strength of fiber/matrixcomposite. A solvent based method was used to deposit trichlorosilane onE-glass fiber surfaces followed by in situ modification of the depositedlayer to prepare pure and mixed amine undecyl self assembled monolayer(SAM). The extent of fiber/matrix adhesion was determined by performingsingle fiber fragmentation test (SFFT). The SFFT data indicate that ≈ 85 %of fiber breaks obtained for epoxy composite occurs at a much lower massfraction of amine coverage for SAM while a similar number of fiber breaksoccur at a much higher mass fraction of amine coverage for aqueous solutiondeposited coupling agent system.

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