Investigation of the mechanical properties of DGEBA-based epoxy resin with nanoclay additives

By B. Qi, Q. Zhang, M. Bannister, Yiu-Wing Mai. 2006

287 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. I. Low
2. B. Marouf
3. R. Bagheri
4. Yiu-Wing Mai
5. H. Alamri
6. A. A. Azeez
7. Soojin Park
8. Jonghwan Suhr

In Mechanics of Materials

1. Yiu-Wing Mai
2. R. Bagheri
3. B. Marouf
4. A. A. Azeez
5. Soojin Park
6. Jonghwan Suhr
7. H. Alamri
8. Lingyu Sun

In Polymers and Plastics

1. I. Low
2. B. Marouf
3. R. Bagheri
4. Yiu-Wing Mai
5. Soojin Park
6. H. Alamri
7. A. A. Azeez
8. Jonghwan Suhr

Citations in the corpus

• Epoxy clay nanocomposites ― processing, properties and applications: A review (2013, background): “[108] reported 25% improvement in fracture toughness with the incorporation of 5% Cloisite 30B in epoxy matrix.”
• Mechanical, thermal and microstructural characteristics of cellulose fibre reinforced epoxy/organoclay nanocomposites (2012, background): “The demonstration of vast improvement in mechanical and physical properties on nylon-6/clay nanocomposites during the pioneering work of researchers at Toyota has since attracted more researchers to study the effect of nano-clay addition in the enhancement of thermal, physical and mechanical propert”
• Toughening of Epoxy Nanocomposites: Nano and Hybrid Effects (2016, background): “The results clearly show that incorporation of nanoclay into epoxy improves the Young’s modulus, tensile strength and fracture toughness/energy.(169-172,175,177-184) A linear increase in Young’s modulus with nanoclay loading in epoxy has been reported(177,181) and the improvements are theoretically ”
• Improving the fracture toughness and the strength of epoxy using nanomaterials--a review of the current status. (2015, background): “Qi et al. 171 investigated the mechanical properties of epoxy when nanoclay additives with MMT-cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) were incorporated into the matrix.”
• Energy absorption capability of nanocomposites: A review (2009, background): “[58] observed that the fracture toughness and modulus of DGEBA epoxy resin increased with increasing volume fraction of nano-clay particles.”