The effect of self-resistance electric heating on the interfacial behavior of injection molded carbon fiber/polypropylene composites through molecular dynamics analysis

The impregnation of carbon fabric reinforcements in an injection mold through self-resistance electric (SRE) heating opens the way for manufacturing carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics in quantities and low cost. The surface morphology evolution of carbon fiber under SRE heating may affect the interfacial properties of resulting composites. In this work, molecular dynamics was introduced to investigate the atomic-level interaction between...