The Effect of Coupling Agent on the Properties （偶联剂的性质的影响）.pdf

International Journal of Chemical, Environmental Biological Sciences (IJCEBS) Volume 2, Issue 3 (2014) ISSN 2320–4087 (Online) The Effect of Coupling Agent on the Properties of Short Non-Woven Pet Microfiber Reinforced Polypropylene (PP) Composites Prakash Mahanwar, and Pravin Gaikwad general, the reinforcing agent can be fibrous, powdered, Abstract— Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) fibers are spherical, crystalline or whiskered and either an organic, now considered as the most important fibers for industrial inorganic, metal or ceramic materials. Fibers have been used application. The present work deals with the effect of concentration for improving the strength and rigidity of numerous of PET short fibers and concentration of coupling agent on polymers. Numerous studies have been reported concerning properties of Polypropylene (PP) composites. It is seen that tensile the reinforcement of polypropylene (PP) using different types strength increases with increase in concentration of short PET of fibers in order to achieve improvement in tensile modulus, microfibers when subjected to the surface treatment using thermal and interfacial properties [4]-[6]. Some of the fibers vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMO) as a coupling agent. Mechanical investigation manifested that treated fibers have strengthening effect induce transcrystalline morphology in PP when