Data characterizing tensile behavior of cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foam

B R Bharath Kumar; Mrityunjay Doddamani; Steven E Zeltmann; Nikhil Gupta; Seeram Ramakrishna

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.01.058

Data characterizing tensile behavior of cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foam

Data Brief. 2016 Feb 4:6:933-41. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.01.058. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

B R Bharath Kumar¹, Mrityunjay Doddamani¹, Steven E Zeltmann², Nikhil Gupta², Seeram Ramakrishna³

Affiliations

¹ Lightweight Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
² Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States.
³ Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Abstract

The data set presented is related to the tensile behavior of cenosphere reinforced high density polyethylene syntactic foam composites "Processing of cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foams using an industrial scale polymer injection molding machine" (Bharath et al., 2016) [1]. The focus of the work is on determining the feasibility of using an industrial scale polymer injection molding (PIM) machine for fabricating syntactic foams. The fabricated syntactic foams are investigated for microstructure and tensile properties. The data presented in this article is related to optimization of the PIM process for syntactic foam manufacture, equations and procedures to develop theoretical estimates for properties of cenospheres, and microstructure of syntactic foams before and after failure. Included dataset contains values obtained from the theoretical model.

Keywords: Fly ash cenospheres; HDPE; Injectionmolding; Syntactic foam; Tensile.