Experimental data are reported on moisture diffusion and the elastoplastic response in uniaxial tensile tests of an intercalated nanocomposite with vinyl ester resin matrix and montmorillonite clay filler at room temperature. Observations in diffusion tests show that the moisture transport in the neat resin is Fickian, whereas it becomes noticeably anomalous (non-Fickian) with the growth of the...

Composite materials made with vinyl ester resins are lighter, stronger and corrosion resistant compared to most metals, and are increasingly being used as building materials and in public transportation. Styrene monomer is used as both a diluent and strengthener in the production of vinyl ester resin (VER) composites. Some researchers contend that free styrene in VER composites is available to ...

In the present work, attempts were made to investigate the reinforcement and treatment effect of GF on morphological and rheological behaviour of GF/epoxy vinyl ester composites. GF was incorporated into epoxy vinyl ester resin by sonication, and mechanical agitation. Rheological and morphological properties were studied as a function of particle treatment and size distributions. The dispersion...

One method of reducing styrene emissions from vinyl ester (VE) and unsaturated polyester resins (UPE) is to replace some or all of the styrene with fatty acid-based monomers. Methacrylated fatty acid (MFA) monomers are ideal candidates because they are inexpensive, have low volatilities, and free-radically polymerize with vinyl ester. The viscosity of VE resins using these fatty acid monomers r...

Fatigue loading is critical to fibre reinforced polymer composites due their anisotropic and heterogenous nature. This study investigated the tensile fatigue behaviour of polyester vinyl ester based GFRP laminates understand aspects failure mode life under cyclic loading. with two different resin systems (polyester ester), stress ratios (0.1 0.5) environmental conditions (air water) were at an ...

Vinyl ester resins are widely used as matrix materials in particle and fiber reinforced composites. Nowadays, particles also preferred micron-sized microstructures to increase the mechanical properties of polymer In this work, vinyl composites with aluminum oxide 1-3 micron dimensions were produced. Mechanical such tensile, 3 point bending, hardness, impact wear specimens prepared investigated....

The most common fillers for syntactic foam development are glass microballoons or fly ash cenospheres. However, the need improved properties and reduced cost requires exploring other possibilities. In this work, foams of vinyl ester resin reinforced with expanded particles (EG) were fabricated compressive composites studied. EGS was smaller size 0.04–0.125 mm in 15, 30, 45 vol.% EGL had larger ...