Fatigue Fracture of Clay Reinforced Nylon Nanocomposites

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Nylon 6 clay hybrid (NCH) composite consists of nano-sized Montmorillonite and nylon 6 matrix. The testing materials were nylon 6, NCH-2 (2 wt% clay reinforced composite) and NCH-5 (5 wt% clay reinforced composite). Fatigue tests at the glass transition temperatures (35 °C and 50 °C) were performed with a stress ratio of 0.1 and frequency of 0.1Hz. NCH-2 had the highest fatigue strength at room temperature, but NCH-5 had the highest fatigue strengths at 35 °C and 50 °C. It was found that the fracture origin changed from surfaces to interior of specimens with an increase in temperature in NCH-2 and NCH-5.

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DOI: 10.2472/jsms.58.969

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