Effects of thermal history on mechanical behavior of PEEK and its short‐fiber composites
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Abstract
Abstract The effect of crystallinity differences induced by mold wall temperature and annealing on mechanical behavior is evaluated for poly(etheretherketone) (PEEK) resin and its composites. The systems investigated were neat PEEK, glass fiber (GF) reinforced PEEK, and carbon fiber (CF) reinforced PEEK. Both composite systems were reinforced with 10, 20, and 30 wt% fiber. The degree of crystallinity ( X c ) of PEEK was found to increase by processing at higher mold temperatures, by annealing, and by fiber length reductions, which appears to indicate the ability of short fibers to nucleate the crystallization of PEEK under favorable thermal conditions. Improvements in Young's modulus and strength together with ductility reductions are generally obtained as crystallinity increases in both neat PEEK and its composites. The contribution of crystallinity to mechanical behavior is significant only for neat PEEK and PEEK reinforced by 10% fiber. SEM micrographs reveal that this is due to a change in failure mode. When PEEK is reinforced by carbon fibers or by 20–30% glass fibers, a macroscopic brittle mode of failure is observed irrespective of matrix crystallinity, and mechanical behavior is principally determined by the nature and content of the reinforcing fibers.
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