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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021 Woven natural fiber reinforced polymer composites have better tensile, flexural, and compressive strength compared to the mechanical properties of unidirectional and randomly oriented NFRPC because of the interlacing of fiber bundles.
Genetu A. Dress +2 more
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Cellulosic materials as natural fillers in starch-containing matrix-based films: a review [PDF]
, 2016 In this work, the different cellulosic materials, namely cellulose and lignin are analyzed. In addition, the starch-containing matrices (isolated starch and flour) reinforced with cellulosic materials to be used in packaging applications are described ...
Alvarez, Vera Alejandra +1 more
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Fibers, 2022 Natural-fiber-reinforced composites are seen as a good alternative to traditional synthetic-fiber composites. However, to successfully implement these materials in engineering applications, along with these materials demonstrating satisfactory load ...
Olga Sinitsky, Nir Trabelsi, Elad Priel
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Natural Fiber-Polypropylene composites made from caranday palm [PDF]
, 2016 Composites made from polypropylene (PP) and local South American fi bers traditionally used in yarnderived craftsmanships, Caranday Palm, were studied regarding the effect of fi ber addition, concentration and characteristics of the coupling agent ...
Aranguren, Mirta Ines +2 more
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Exploration of Mechanical Properties of Enset–Sisal Hybrid Polymer Composite
Fibers, 2022 Enset and sisal fibers are among the most widely used reinforcement to fabricate natural fiber-based composite materials. Hand lay-up techniques were employed in this study to fabricate enset–sisal (E/S) hybrid fiber composite with volume ratios of 100/0,
Abera E. Bekele +2 more
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First record of the agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatusGyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), in Puerto Rico [PDF]
, 2011 The agave snout weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus Gyllenhal (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), is reported from Puerto Rico for the first time.
Anderson, Jesse A., Setliff, Gregory P.
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Fabrication of Decorative Fluorescent Composite Material [PDF]
, 2011 Decorative Composites are the composite materials having artistic characteristics in addition to functional characteristics. It is high possible that the decorative composites produce a new field on the fibrous composite industry.
Deep, Lata
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Journal of Natural FibersThe treatment of sisal fiber by pozzolanic materials like kaolin and silica-fume has been explored; however, no study has modeled and optimized the effect of sisal fiber degradation treatment using calcined bentonite.
Tsion Amsalu Fode +2 more
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Studies of Sisal Fiber-Containing Composites
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2008 ABSTRACT The composite materials are of significant importance to the current technological development. Any type of fiber, mechanical properties of which make it exploitable, should be thoroughly studied from the point of view of its potential applications.
A. Meddahi, K. Ait tahar, M. Bibi
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Nanocellulose as building block for novel materials [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis describes the fabrication of novel green materials using nanocellulose as the building block. Bacterial cellulose (BC) was used as the nanocellulose predominantly in this work. BC is highly crystalline pure cellulose with an inherent fibre
Lee, Koon-Yang, Lee, Koon-Yang
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