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The nucleation and crystallization of nylon at the interface in glass-fibre and carbon-fibre reinforced nylon 6 composites has been investigated by electron microscope studies of sectioned and etched bulk specimens and solution cast and melt crystallized thin films. The fracture energies of the composites were obtained from tensile strength tests and the interfacial bond strengths were calculated from fibre pullout measurements. The fibres are shown to nucleate a columnar structure at the interface with marked differences between the structures nucleated by glass fibres and by carbon fibres and also between that nucleated by type I and type II carbon fibres. The structure around glass fibres was non-uniform and influenced to some extent by the presence of the size coating on the fibre surface. In the carbon-fibre composites the columnar structure was due primarily to physical matching of the graphite crystallites. Surface treatment of the carbon fibres to improve chemical bonding is shown to have a significant effect on bond strength which cannot be explained in terms of the columnar structure at the fibre surface. The treated fibres gave rise to only small amounts of fibre pull-out and low fracture energies whereas the untreated fibres showed extensive pull-out which was reflected in high fracture energies.
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Bessell, T., Shortall, J.B. The crystallization and interfacial bond strength of nylon 6 at carbon and glass fibre surfaces. J Mater Sci 10, 2035–2043 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00557481
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