The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Water-cooled non-thermal gliding arc for adhesion improvement of glass-fibre-reinforced polyester

På svenska

Author

  • Yukihiro Kusano
  • Bent F. Sorensen
  • Tom L. Andersen
  • Helmuth L. Toftegaard
  • Frank Leipold
  • Mirko Salewski
  • Zhiwei Sun
  • Jiajian Zhu
  • Zhongshan Li
  • Marcus Aldén

Summary, in English

A non-equilibrium quenched plasma is prepared using a gliding-arc discharge generated between diverging electrodes and extended by a gas flow. It can be operated at atmospheric pressure and applied to plasma surface treatment to improve adhesion properties of material surfaces. In this work, glass-fibre-reinforced polyester plates were treated using an atmospheric pressure gliding-arc discharge with air flow to improve adhesion with a vinylester adhesive. The electrodes were water-cooled so as to operate the gliding arc continually. The treatment improved wettability and increased the density of oxygen-containing polar functional groups on the surfaces. Double cantilever beam specimens were prepared for fracture mechanic characterization of the laminate adhesive interface. It was found that gliding-arc treatment significantly increases the fracture resistance in comparison with a standard peel-ply treatment.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volume

46

Issue

13

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1361-6463