Elastic properties of highly anisotropic thin poly(propylene) foams

2004/06/23 by Enis Tuncer, Michael Wegener
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cellular and Composite Structures #Polymer Foaming and Composites #Polymer composites and self-healing #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2004.05.002

published as Materials Letters Volume 58, Issues 22-23, September 2004, Pages 2815-2818

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Abstract

In this letter, elastic properties of highly anisotropic cellular poly(propylene) films are reported. The material shows peculiar elastic properties compared to other foams in the literature. The data is displayed as the relative Young's modulus E^*/E_s versus relative density ρ^*/ρ_s. Almost all the data from the literature are located on the region E^*/E_s=(ρ^*/ρ_s)ⁿ with 1≤ n≤6. The introduced material on the other hand have lower relative Young's modulus at high relative densities, n≥6.

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