Analysis of CFRP and GFRP Composite Materials
This Section provides an illustrative list of example pieces of work LPD Lab Services has carried out since it began doing 3rd Party work in earnest in 2003. Multiple links are provided to other areas of the website to help customers navigate.
- Check for residual CFRP and GFRP release films by XPS, FTIR and SEM
- Solvent swelling attack of composite products
- Failure Investigations of glass fibre and carbon fibre reinforced plastics and materials
- Mechanical property change investigations due to leaching of mobile species, chain scission or hydrolysis by FTIR, GC-MS, pyrolysis GC-MS, SEM and XPS
- Thermal degradation of the CFRP and GFRP by TGA and pyrolysis GC-MS
- Measurement of chopped carbon fibre roving lengths in carbon fibre reinforced composites
- Inspection of extent of size at reinforcement / fibre interface in glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) and carbon reiforced platic (CFRP)
- Determination of residual mould release agents.