PMID- 34883704
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211214
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 23
DP  - 2021 Nov 30
TI  - Preparation and Finite Element Analysis of Fly Ash/HDPE Composites for Large 
      Diameter Bellows.
LID - 10.3390/polym13234204 [doi]
LID - 4204
AB  - In recent years, buried bellows have often had safety accidents such as pipeline 
      bursts and ground subsidence due to the lack of adequate mechanical properties 
      and other quality problems. In order to improve the mechanical properties of 
      bellows, fly ash (FA) was used as a reinforced filler in high density 
      polyethylene (HDPE) to develop composites. The FA was surface treated with a 
      silane coupling agent and HDPE-g-maleic anhydride was used as compatibilizer. 
      Dumbbell-shaped samples were prepared via extrusion blending and injection 
      molding. The cross-section morphology, thermal stability and mechanical 
      properties of the composites were studied. It was observed that when 10% modified 
      FA and 5% compatibilizer were added to HDPE, the tensile yield strength and 
      tensile breaking strength of the composites were nearly 30.2% and 40.4% higher 
      than those of pure HDPE, respectively, and the Young's modulus could reach 
      1451.07 MPa. In addition, the ring stiffness of the bellows was analyzed using 
      finite element analysis. Compared with a same-diameter bellows fabricated from 
      common commercially available materials, the ring stiffness increased by nearly 
      23%. The preparation method of FA/HDPE is simple, efficient, and low-cost. It is 
      of great significance for the popularization of high-performance bellows and the 
      high value-added utilization of FA.
FAU - Wu, Angxuan
AU  - Wu A
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Jia, Lan
AU  - Jia L
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
AD  - Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan 
      030024, China.
FAU - Yu, Wenwen
AU  - Yu W
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Zhu, Fengbo
AU  - Zhu F
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Liu, Fuyong
AU  - Liu F
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Wang, Yanqin
AU  - Wang Y
AD  - College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 
      030024, China.
FAU - Lu, Guoyun
AU  - Lu G
AD  - College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Qin, Shuhao
AU  - Qin S
AD  - National Engineering Research Center for Compounding and Modification of Polymer 
      Materials, College of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Guizhou University, 
      Guiyang 550014, China.
FAU - Gao, Dongyang
AU  - Gao D
AD  - College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
FAU - Wang, Hua
AU  - Wang H
AD  - Kangmingyuan (Guizhou) Technology Development Co., Ltd., Anshun 561000, China.
FAU - Wu, Xiaogang
AU  - Wu X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3220-8933
AD  - College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 
      030024, China.
FAU - Zheng, Qiang
AU  - Zheng Q
AD  - College of Materials Science & Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 
      Taiyuan 030024, China.
AD  - Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and 
      Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang 
      University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
LA  - eng
GR  - 11972242/the National Natural Science Foundation of China/
GR  - 52103019/the National Natural Science Foundation of China/
GR  - 1331 Project/the Fund for Shanxi "1331 Project"/
GR  - 2021SX-TD008/Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical 
      Engineering/
GR  - 20181102004/Shanxi Province Science and Technology Major Project/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211130
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC8659467
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - bellows
OT  - composite materials
OT  - finite element analysis
OT  - fly ash
OT  - high density polyethylene
OT  - mechanical properties
COIS- We declare that we have no known competing financial interests or personal 
      relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this 
      paper.
EDAT- 2021/12/11 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/11 06:01
PMCR- 2021/11/30
CRDT- 2021/12/10 01:01
PHST- 2021/11/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/11/26 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/11/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/10 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/11/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym13234204 [pii]
AID - polymers-13-04204 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym13234204 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2021 Nov 30;13(23):4204. doi: 10.3390/polym13234204.