CNTS AND NHA AS REINFORCEMENT TO IMPROVE FLEXURAL AND IMPACT PROPERTIES OF UHMWPE NANOCOMPOSITES FOR HIP JOINT APPLICATIONS
| Main Author: | Jawad K. Oleiwi |
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| Format: | Article |
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, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3836153 |
Daftar Isi:
- Nano materials with their unique properties achieve good improvement when they used to reinforce polymer matrix composites. CNTs and nHA were added to matrix of UHMWPE to produce eight nanocomposites by adding four weight fractions (%) involve 1, 2, 3 and 5% of each material. Some mechanical properties were tested in this research include the Flexural strength & Shear strength which indicated that UHMWPE/3%CNTs gave the highest strength followed by UHMWPE/5%nHA. Also the results showed that the highest impact strength was for UHMWPE/3%nHA followed by UHMWPE/3%CNTs. This improvement in these tested properties is due to the filling the pores in nanocomposites compared with pure UHMWPE which has many holes filled by air which decrease the mechanical properties of the later.