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Phenolic resins today have caught the attention of researchers and academics making it highly acclaimed among resins. Mainly its use with fibrous reinforcements (bast fibers, core fibers, leaf fibers, seed fibers and fruit fibers), thus, reinforced phenolic composite can be manufactured by a variety of phenolic resins classes. Which promote improvement of mechanical properties such as tensile, flexural and impact. Natural fiber reinforced phenolic resins are widely used to replace denser, environmentally polluting materials that have mainly lower mechanical properties. However, the importance of natural fibers (vegetable, animal and mineral fibers) incorporated into a matrix of phenolic resins (thermosetting) was emphasized, since long or short natural fibers when incorporated into phenolic resins. This book chapter promotes the enlargement of the frontier of knowledge about phenolic matrix composites (thermosetting composite) and thus presents a perspective of natural fibers based phenolic composites (use of natural fibers as reinforcement and their different classifications will be discussed). |
