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Symposium: S08 - Polymer composites
Poster Presentation
 
 

The Adhesion Behaviour of Overmolded PP Based Continuous Glass Fiber Composite Sheets and PP Compounds

Akpınar Serkan (1), Arkın Erman (2), Yıldırım Altan (2), Kodal Mehmet (1), Özkoç Güralp (1)*

(1) Kocaeli University - Marmara - Turkey, (2) Assanhanil Automotive Company - Marmara - Turkey

Weight reduction is an important challenge in the automotive industry to decrease fuel consumption and to increase driving performance. Continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRT) composite materials have been one of the most promising alternative to take place of heavy steel components. CFRT materials exhibit much higher strength and toughness compared to their short fiber counterparts. Especially, hybrid thermoplastic composites are playing a significant role because of their high-volume production capability, design freedom, cost and recycle benefits. Accordingly, several research fields are being studied to achieve the best weight reduction in the component development. The optimization of materials and process parameters, as well as joining/welding properties of organosheets and thermoplastic compounds are upon these important research topics. In this study, the adhesion at the welding line between PP continuous glass fiber composite sheets and PP compounds were investigated through tensile and bending tests on coupons. In first stage, continuous fiber PP composite sheets were pre-heated in an oven. Then, thermoplastic compounds were preapared with a laboratory twin screw extruder (Xplore Instruments). Finally, PP compounds were overmolded onto PP/glassfiber composite sheets. The adhesion behaviour at the welding line of all compounds were investigated by tensile and bending tests.