AQUEOUS POWDER SLURRY MANUFACTURE OF CONTINUOUS FIBER-REINFORCED POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITE

A model and experiment of an aqueous slurry process are reported. Acco rding to an ideal structure of a fiber-reinforced composite, we presen t a square geometrical model to build up the relationships among some important parameters in the process such as powder particle diameter, wet slurry concentration, flow distance of melting powder particle, an d fiber volume fraction of the composite. Practical experiments based on these relationships provide the optimum parameters for manufacturin g the continuous fiber reinforced polyethylene matrix composite.