Influence of the Initial Fiber Orientation on the Weld Strength in Welding of Glass Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics

Table 1

Fiber orientation in parts to be joined by hot plate welding.

Material and initial fiber orientation		3D fiber orientation tensor
		PP-GF30	Injection molded	0.26	0.19	0.55
Longitudinally oriented	0.21		0.47	0.32
Transversely oriented	0.19		0.22	0.59
PP-LGF30	Injection molded	0.15	0.17	0.68
	Longitudinally oriented	0.19	0.43	0.39
	Transversely oriented	0.15	0.16	0.69