A Simple Model for Mechanical Behavior of PET Thin Film Deposited with Pure Aluminum on Both Surfaces and the Experimental Study

Abstract:

A commercially available PET thin film material with pure aluminum material deposited on its two surfaces is studied in this work to investigate the relationship between the mechanical behaviors and the structure of this “composite” material with the application of the concepts for the composite mechanics. This kind of structure has excellent anti-corrosion properties and can act as the good functional barrier material. Experimental researches are further carried out here to study the mechanical performance under various loading conditions as well as the influence of loading rates over the structure’s failure behavior, and over its mechanical properties like the yielding strength and the elastic modulus.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 602-604)
• Pages: 1488-1491
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.602-604.1488
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Guo Ning Liu, Hua Dong Zhao, Qian Qian Guo, Sheng Gang Ma
• Keywords: Aluminum (Al), Composite Structure, Mechanical Behavior, PET, Thin Film

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