title: Data characterizing tensile behavior of cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foam.
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.
authors.affiliation: Lightweight Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
authors.forename: B R Bharath
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Lightweight Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
authors.forename: Mrityunjay
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Doddamani
authors.affiliation: Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States.
authors.forename: Steven E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Zeltmann
authors.affiliation: Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States.
authors.forename: Nikhil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Seeram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramakrishna
keywords: Fly ash cenospheres; HDPE; Injectionmolding; Syntactic foam; Tensile