Flax and hemp fibres as raw materials for thermal insulations

By Hanna-Riitta Kymäläinen, A. Sjöberg. 2008

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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Citations in the corpus

• Textile waste as an alternative thermal insulation building material solution (2013, background): “Different textiles fibers are analyzed as a material to produce lightweight concrete, as reinforcement of cement mortars elements [17,22–24], or as fibrous insulation materials [25–27].”
• Optimization of hempseed oil extraction by n-hexane (2013, background): “Nowadays, hemp has been investigated as a raw material for thermal insulation in the construction industry (Kymäläinen and Sjöberg, 2008).”
• Plant aggregates and fibers in earth construction materials: A review (2016, background): “They have high tensile strength [8] and good thermal insulation property [9].”
• Evaluation of mechanical and thermal properties of banana-flax based natural fibre composite (2014, background): “Bast fibres like flax and hemp are suitable for thermal insulations [20].”