(Nanowerk Spotlight) Plastics permeate every facet of modern life ... "We prepared composite samples with varying concentrations of CNTs and tested their mechanical properties, focusing particularly ...

Figure 1. Comparison of tensile strength for unfilled plastic samples. Prone, upright (with Voxelfill) and upright (conventional). To determine this, the Voxelfill-based test series were set up with ...

The tonnage necessary to bend 1 ft. does not double at 2 ft. but instead may increase by two-and-a-half to three times. As ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

Plastics processor Ensinger (Nufringen / Germany; www.ensinger-online.com) has launched a range of semi-finished products as part of its “Tecasint” 4000 series of polyimide materials, offering ...

Image Credit: KickaPoo/Shuttersock.com Aluminum-rare earth element (REE) alloys are known for their high yield strength, tensile strength, and strength retention at room temperature ... While the ...

23 that the funding would expand the firm's ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene ... corrosion resistance, tensile strength, thermal stability and porosity, making it the ideal material ...

The addition of only 1% nanotubes by weight to the polymer mixture increases Young’s modulus by 77% and tensile strength by 100%. Surprisingly, the mechanical properties of this reinforced plastic ...