ArticlePolymers2025
The Effect of Poly (Methyl Methacrylate) Content on Chemical, Thermomechanical, Mechanical, and Fatigue Life Characteristics of Ternary PC/ABS/PMMA Blends.
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- Analysis of Thermally Induced Residual Stress in Resistance Welded PC/CF Composite to Aluminum.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Polymer blending techniques enable the tailoring of desired properties for diverse applications. This study investigates the effect of PMMA content on the thermomechanical, chemical, mechanical, and fatigue life properties of PC/ABS/PMMA (polycarbonate/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene/polymethylmethacrylate) ternary blends. To this end, various characterization analyses, as well as tensile, impact, and fatigue tests, were conducted. The results indicate that the viscoelastic modulus improves with increasing PMMA content in ternary blends. Furthermore, PC/ABS/PMMA blends exhibit an immiscible phase morphology. The elastic modulus, yield strength, and tensile strength increase with higher PMMA content, while the elongation at break and impact strength decrease. Fatigue strength and the fatigue strength exponent were found to vary nonlinearly with PMMA content. Compared to PC/ABS blends, PC/ABS/PMMA blends demonstrated improvements of approximately 12% to 58% and 26% to 117% in hysteresis energy and the dynamic elastic modulus, respectively. Additionally, fatigue life cycles improved by 5% to 11% at low stress amplitudes. This experimental study provides comprehensive insight into the complex interplay among the chemical, thermomechanical, mechanical, and fatigue properties of ternary PC/ABS/PMMA blends, highlighting their potential for applications requiring balanced or tailored structural and material characteristics.
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