Kenaf natural fiber reinforced polypropylene composites: A discussion on manufacturing problems and solutions

By M. Zampaloni, Farhang Pourboghrat, S. P. Yankovich, B. Rodgers, J. Moore, L. Drzal, A. Mohanty, Manjusri Misra. 2007

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of Fiber Loading on the Mechanical Properties of Kenaf and Fiberfrax Fiber-reinforced Phenol-Formaldehyde Composites (2010, background): “This has led to predictions that in the near future, plastics and polymer composites will comprise approximately 15% of total automobile weight [6,7].”
• Green composites: A review of processing technologies and recent applications (2018, methodology): “Zampaloni et al.101 fabricated the fiberreinforced PP sheets using TF process.”
• Kenaf fiber reinforced composites: A review (2011, background): “[71] pointed out, kenaf fibers are difficult to manually separate and visually disperse evenly during manufacturing.”
• KENAF FIBRES AS REINFORCEMENT FOR POLYMERIC COMPOSITES: A REVIEW (2009, background): “(Zampaloni et al. 2007), however stressed that one of the main obstacles that needs to be addressed in the fabrication of kenaf fiber–reinforced composites regards uneven fiber distribution.”
• Round Robin Test for composite-to-brick shear bond characterization (2012, background): “The prospects of other recent mineral fibers (e.g., basalt) or natural ones as reinforcing materials (e.g., flax, hemp) are also promising, to reduce obtrusiveness and improve sustainability (Wambua et al. 2003; Zampaloni et al. 2007; Garmendia et al. 2011).”
• Comparison of Polylactic Acid/Kenaf and Polylactic Acid/Rise Husk Composites: The Influence of the Natural Fibers on the Mechanical, Thermal and Biodegradability Properties (2010, background): “Kenaf fiber has lower content of lignin, an amorphous, than rice husk fiber [ 27 ].”