Microstructural design of biopolymer blends and related elasticity with imperfect interfacial bonding

Carbohydrate Polymers
Sofiane BelhabibHalim Haddadi

Abstract

The underlined microstructure of biopolymer blends reflects complexity of mass and heat transfer during processing. In the present work, such complexity is apprehended using simple and intuitive way to generate typical microstructures resulting from thermomoulding processing. The starting point is a simple generation scheme of the feed powder approximated as circular heat sources. Finite element computation of a transient thermal analysis is performed and the resulting nodal fields are again converted into 2D microstructures. The final microstructures prove to be similar in all geometrical characteristics starch-zein blends. Elasticity response of these blends is explored using finite element computation. Sensitivity analysis is performed to derive the effect of perfect and imperfect interface properties on the mechanical performance of the biopolymer blend. Predictions show a significant role of interfaces which trigger the elasticity properties of the biopolymer blends much larger than the contrast in phase properties. This study demonstrates that nonlinear interface effect on elasticity behaviour is related to geometrical percolation that occurs at specific phase content.

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