Ductile woven silk fibre thermoplastic composites with quasi-isotropic strength Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
The combination of ductile Bombyx Mori silk fibre with ductile thermoplastic matrices, combined with the use of a woven fibre architecture, leads to ductile composites with quasi-isotropic strength.Bending and tensile properties were determined for (0,90)s silk twill weave composites, with different thermoplastic polymers and as reference epoxy resin. Thermoplastic (0,90)s woven silk fibre composites are isotropic in strength (about 135 MPa at ...