유리섬유가 충전된 공압출 목재⋅플라스틱 복합재의 굽힘 특성에 관한 연구

A Study on the Flexural Property of Glass Fiber Filled Coextruded Wood Plastic Composites

In this study, the effect of various glass fiber (GF) contents in a shell layer and shell thickness changes on the flexural property of coextruded wood plastic composites (WPCs) in combination with three core systems (weak, moderate, and strong) was investigated. GF be-haved as an effective reinforcement for the whole coextruded WPCs and GF alignments in the shell layer played an important role in determining the flexural property of the coextruded WPCs. At a given shell thickness, the flexural property of the whole coextruded WPCs was im-proved with the increase of GF content in shell. For core quality, when the core is weak, in-crease of GF content in shell led to improved flexural property of the whole composites and in-crease of shell thickness helped it. On the other hand, when the core is strong, the flexural property of the whole composites showed reduced features at low GF content in shell and in-crease of shell thickness aggravated it. This approach provides a method for optimizing per-formance of the coextruded WPCs with various combinations of core-shell structure and properties.