Sustainable composites: Processing of coir fibres and application in hybrid-fibre composites
| Autor: | Stepan Vladimirovitch Lomov, Aart Willem Van Vuure, Gries Thomas, Truong Chi Thanh, Lucas Anthony Ciccarelli, Sangeetha Ramaswamy, Nguyen Minh Tri, Frederik Cloppenburg, Nhan Vo Hong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Textile Materials science business.industry Mechanical Engineering 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 020901 industrial engineering & automation Mechanics of Materials Materials Chemistry Ceramics and Composites Coir Composite material 0210 nano-technology business Hybrid fibre |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Composite Materials. 54:1947-1960 |
| ISSN: | 1530-793X 0021-9983 |
| Popis: | Coir fibres, a byproduct of the coconut industry, have high performance qualities but are difficult to process by conventional textile methods. The purpose of the research is to combine the processibility of hemp and flax with the high-performance properties of coir to create a composite product worthy of industrial applications. The evaluation of coir fibre-reinforced composites focuses on the processibility of the coir fibre into a nonwoven, how well it interfaces with polylactic acid and an analysis of how the mechanical properties of the final product change when mixing coir with hemp and flax. The results show that the hybrid samples outperformed most of the researched values for coir composites, despite the reduced properties of control samples as in comparable research. Adding just 10% of either flax or hemp dramatically increased the mechanical properties compared to the pure coir–polylactic acid composite. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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