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Natural Fibers for the Production of Green Composites
2016Development of green composite from natural fibers has gained increasing interests due to the environmental and sustainable benefits when compared with petroleum based non-degradable materials. However, a big challenge of green composites is the diversity of fiber sources, because of the large variation in the properties and characteristics of the ...
Zhang, Xiaolei +3 more
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2015
Safely Design, Test, and Construct Products Made of Natural Fiber CompositesNatural fibers and their composites carry distinct advantages over industrial fibers. Some advantages-including renewability and availability of raw materials, and lower energy consumption-could help safeguard environmental resources and eventually replace synthetic ...
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Safely Design, Test, and Construct Products Made of Natural Fiber CompositesNatural fibers and their composites carry distinct advantages over industrial fibers. Some advantages-including renewability and availability of raw materials, and lower energy consumption-could help safeguard environmental resources and eventually replace synthetic ...
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Natural Fibers for Composite Applications
2016The chapter presents selected vegetable fibers such as flax, hemp, jute, kenaf, abaca, sisal, coir in terms of their properties and short description of commonly applied processes of fiber extraction. Processes of retting and preliminary processing influence fiber quality and related with it appropriate fibre distribution into the matrix, what is ...
Malgorzata Zimniewska +1 more
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Matrices for Natural Fiber Composites
2015In this chapter, we are introduced to the use of matrices together with natural fibers for the manufacture of reinforced composites. In particular, this chapter is focused on the use of the most important polymer matrices in the manufacture of composite materials.
Juan Domínguez +3 more
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Natural fiber/polypropylene composites
1999There are ecological and economical reasons in favor of the use of natural fibers as reinforcing fibers for plastics. A lower price, better recyclability, hygienic harmlessness and a carbon dioxide neutral combustion are the advantages of natural fibers compared to glass fibers (GF).
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