Krishnaswamy, SuryaTinsley, LawrenceMarchante, VeronicaAddepalli, SriHuang, ZhaorongAbhyankar, Hrushikesh2024-06-112024-06-112017-10-05Krishnaswamy, Surya; Tinsley, Lawrence; Marchante, Veronica; Addepalli, Sri; Huang, Zhaorong; Abhyankar, Hrushikesh (2017). Effect of extrusion and compression moulding on the thermal properties of Nylon-6/Silica Aerogel Composites: Experimental Data. Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD). Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.4299254https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22377The paper presents the effect of a lower extrusion speed and compression moulding on the thermal properties of PA-6/Aerogel composite. SEM/EDX and optical microscope images showed that although most of the aerogel was destroyed during extrusion at 65 rpm, extrusion at 5 rpm showed better retention of the aerogel structure. However, when subjected to moulding in a compression press, both composites suffered significant damage. Nevertheless, the final thermal conductivity and damage coefficient values did show an improvement in the thermal insulation properties of the samples extruded at 5 rpm compared to the samples extruded at 65 rpm and the virgin polymer (PA-6) with the former losing around 33% of the structure of the aerogel particles compared to 41% for the later.CC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Nylon''Aerogel''Extrusion''Thermal Conductivity''Composites''Composite and Hybrid Materials''Manufacturing Processes and Technologies (excl. Textiles)'Dataset10.17862/cranfield.rd.4299254