FRP Bonding Angles

FRP Bonding Angles consist of layers of multi-axial E-glass laminated with a high performance epoxy resin, with the fibre direction tailored for optimum load carrying capability.

The 90⁰  Bonding Angles have been designed to provide a quick and effective means for making right angle joints between DuFLEX panels.   These pre-cured angles can be bonded in place with an epoxy paste adhesive, and are ideal for inaccessible areas where wet fibreglass taping would be difficult.

Advantages

• No wet lay-up
• Lighter and more consistent than wet lay-up
• Extremely high strength – to – weight ratio
• Faster to install than wet lay-up, especially overhead
• Improved stress transfer between laminates
• Fatigue resistant
• Can be kerfed and curved for bases of partitions

Bonding Angle Performance Data

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Test report CET 4149/3 –
Tensile tests to fibreglass connections – fins.
Sample Data: Specimen 1 – polyester bonded : Specimen 2 – epoxy bonded
Test Equipment –
Grade A Tinius Olsen Universal Testing Machine, loading rate = 5mm/min

In both circumstances, failure of the joins was through the adhesive rather than the Bonding Angle.