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Functionalised roving for structural health monitoring of composites

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posted on 2010-01-01, 00:00 authored by T Cheng, C Cherif, R Hund, Tong Lin, N Zhao
Here, we investigated photochromic glass fibre threads produced with the sol-gel coating technique and used it as sewing threads to produce stitched glass-polypropylene composites. The possibility of making sol-gel photochromic glass fibre threads, the morphology of the glass fibre thread and the tensile property of glass fibre sewing threads before and after sol-gel treatment have been studied in this work. The photochromic glass fibre thread was successfully stitched into glass-polypropylene composites as sewing threads and showed an efficient and effective response to UV light. Our results indicate that sol-gel coating is an efficient way to produce photochromic glass fibre. In addition, the sol-gel coating does not significantly affect the tensile performance of the glass fibre.

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Journal

Materials technology

Volume

25

Issue

2

Pagination

112 - 116

Publisher

Maney Publishing

Location

Yorks, England

ISSN

1066-7857

eISSN

1753-5557

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Maney Publishing

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