Abstract This work investigated effect of glass fibre fabric structures, feedstock feed rate and screen size on specific shredding energy reinforced plastics (GFRP) waste via a two-level factorial design experiment study. Four types structure, i.e. unidirectional (UD), biaxial (BIAX), triaxial (TRIAX) chopped strand mat (CSM), were impregnated separately with unsaturated polyester resin to manu...

Excellent mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make them outstanding candidate reinforcements to enhance mechanical properties of conventional composites. The glass/polyester composites are widely used in many industries and applications. Improving the mechanical properties of such composites with addition of CNTs can increase their applications. In this research, multi-walled carbo...

Abstract Fiberglass-reinforced plastics (FRP) composite materials for ships that are widely used marine-grade unsaturated polyester resin matrix and combimat fiber, a combination of chopped strand mat (CSM) woven roving (WR) fibers. Although less popular than marine CSM–WR, biaxial warp-knitted glass fabrics have the potential to be applied as fiber laminates ship hull materials. A comparative ...

–The paper presents the results of a study on the performance of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) wrapped high strength concrete columns under uni-axial compression. The columns had slenderness ratios of 8, 16, 24 and 32. Three types of wrap materials (Chopped Strand Mat GFRP, Uni-Directional Cloth GFRP and Woven Roving GFRP) were used with 3 mm and 5 mm thicknesses. The columns were teste...

In the present work, Na+-montmorillonite nanoclay (Na-MMT) was functionalized using 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (3-APTMS) as a coupling agent. The covalent functionalization of MMT was confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). In the specimen fabrication stage, 5 wt% of pristine MMT or silane-functionalized MMT (f-MMT) were incorporated into an epoxy system and the resulta...