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Investigation on mechanical behaviour of twisted natural fiber hybrid composite fabricated by vacuum assisted compression molding technique
- Source :
- Fibers and Polymers. 17:80-87
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Nowadays, automotive, packaging and sport equipment industries are using natural fibre based composite materials as they are cheap, abundantly available and having a lot of ecological advantages. The main objective of this paper is to introduce a new concept of fibre twisting and to investigate the effect of twisting and the fibre orientation on the mechanical properties of bio degradable green composites. Here, the composites are fabricated by vacuum assisted compression molding technique in which the problems of hand lay process are eliminated. Here, two fibers namely twisted neem and twisted kenaf are sandwiched between layers of glass fibres to enhance the stiffness and strength of the laminates. Initially, the fibers are alkalized to increase the mechanical properties. The result shows that there is a significant improvement in mechanical properties of composites due to the presence of twisted fibers. It also shows the influence of fiber orientation on mechanical properties.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Polymers and Plastics
biology
Vacuum assisted
General Chemical Engineering
Fiber orientation
Composite number
Compression molding
Stiffness
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
Kenaf
0104 chemical sciences
medicine
Composite material
medicine.symptom
0210 nano-technology
Natural fiber
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18750052 and 12299197
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fibers and Polymers
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........615a849cf0ea3d7ddbaff2da8846852d