Discussion on the paper 'Simulation of porosity by microballoon dispersion in epoxy and urethane: Mechanical measurements and models' by M. A. El-Hadek and H. V. Tippur, Journal of Materials Science, 37, 1649-1660, 2002, [1]

摘要

The key goal of the paper by El-Hadek and Tippur [1] is the experimental determination of Young's modulus, tensile strength, and fracture toughness of syntactic foams (i.e., particulate composites obtained by filling a polymeric matrix with hollow spherical inclusion), and the provision of microchemical models for predicting such material parameters.