The present invention relates to filled polymeric materials including a polymer and a filler distributed within the polymer, and to light weight composites which comprise at least a pair of metallic layers and a polymeric layer interposed between the pair of metallic layers, the polymeric layer containing the filled polymeric material. The composite materials of the present invention may be formed using conventional stamping equipment at ambient temperatures. Composite materials of the present invention may also be capable of being welded to other metal materials. The composite materials may be employed in an automotive part. Preferred composite materials include one or any combination of the following features: metallic fibers, ribbon fibers; or a polyolefin.

Water-soluble thermoplastic polymer composites of water-soluble thermoplastic polyethylene oxide graft polymers, and nanoscopic particulate processing aids such nanoscopic titanium dioxide powders, or water-soluble polyethylene oxide graft polymers, structural reinforcement materials such as carbon or glass fibers, and plasticizers. These water-soluble thermoplastic polymer composites may be useful in preparing, for example, three-dimensional (3D) sacrificial supports, vapor sensors, as well as other three-dimensional (3D) articles, objects, or parts.

A layered body which allows a reduction in residual volatile component and a method for producing the layered body. A reinforcing fiber composite material which has high heat resistance and superior mechanical strength and a method for producing the reinforcing fiber composite material. A method includes fusing together a plurality of layers each of which contains: a powder of an imide oligomer represented by a specific general formula; and reinforcement fibers.

A shear band that may be used e.g., in a non-pneumatic tire is provided. The shear band uses interlaced reinforcing elements positioned within a shear layer of elastomeric material. A variety of configurations may be used to create the interlaced positioning of the reinforcing elements including e.g., a horizontal diamond or vertical diamond configuration. The shear layer formed from a rubber composition having a very low hysteresis.

Provided is a mountain-shaped structure material being excellent in stiffness and lightness. The present invention is a structure material including a resin, reinforced fibers and voids. The structure material has a specific bending stiffness represented as Ec.sup.1/3.Math..sup.1 being 2.5 or more where a bending modulus is Ec and a density is . The structure material has a mountain shape.

Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition exhibiting excellent heat resistance and superior impregnability into a reinforcing-fiber substrate, and being used in fiber-reinforced-plastic molding materials. The thermoplastic resin composition, which is used as a matrix resin of a fiber-reinforced-plastic molding material, contains a phenoxy resin (A) and a polyamide resin (B). The mass ratio (A)/(B) of the phenoxy resin (A) and the polyamide resin (B) is 10/90 to 90/10. The melt viscosity of the resin composition in any temperature range from 160 C. to 280 C. is from 300 Pa.Math.s to 3,000 Pa.Math.s. A fiber-reinforced-plastic molding material has a reinforcing-fiber substrate, the surface of which is at least partially coated with the above thermoplastic resin composition and an interfacial shear strength of 30 MPa or higher at an interface with reinforcing fibers, as measured by a micro-droplet method.

[Problem] To bond a metal member and a fiber-reinforced resin material, which uses a thermoplastic phenoxy resin as a matrix resin, with each other without decreasing the performance of the fiber-reinforced resin material; and to suppress the occurrence of electrolytic corrosion between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material.

[Solution] A metal-fiber reinforced resin material composite body according to the present invention is provided with: a metal member; a fiber-reinforced resin material which is superposed on at least one surface of the metal member so as to be complexed with the metal member; and a bonding resin layer which is interposed between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material. The fiber-reinforced resin material comprises a matrix resin that contains 50 parts by mass or more of a phenoxy resin in 100 parts by mass of the resin component and a reinforcing fiber material that is contained in the matrix resin; the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the bonding resin layer is lower than the concentration of the phenoxy resin in the resin component of the matrix resin; and the shear strength between the metal member and the fiber-reinforced resin material is 0.8 MPa or more.

A thermoplastic prepreg includes a web or mesh of fibers in which the web or mesh of fibers includes chopped fibers. The thermoplastic prepreg also includes a thermoplastic material that fully impregnates the web or mesh of fibers so that the thermoplastic prepreg has a void content of less than 5%. The thermoplastic material is polymers that are formed by in-situ polymerization of monomers or oligomers in which greater than 90% of the monomers or oligomers react to form the thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic prepreg includes between 5 and 95 weight percent of the thermoplastic material and the chopped fibers that form the web or mesh of fibers are un-bonded.

A composite article comprising at least one metal reinforcement element embedded in a polymer material, said metal reinforcement element being at least partially coated with an adhesion promoting layer, said adhesion promoting layer being interposed between said metal reinforcement element and said polymer material, characterized in that said adhesion promoting layer comprises an acid anhydride-grafted polyolefin and a phenolic antioxidant.

Some embodiments are directed to a composite material comprising a polymer matrix having reinforcing fibres and metallic wires embedded therein, articles including the composite material and methods of fabrication of the composite material and articles.