Fabrication and testing of natural fibre composites: Vakka, sisal, bamboo and banana
By K. M. M. Rao, K. Mohan Rao, A. V. R. Prasad. 2010
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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics
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Citations in the corpus
- Synergy of fiber length and content on free vibration and damping behavior of natural fiber reinforced polyester composite beams (2014, background): “[14] studied the effect of fiber content on static mechanical strength of banana and other natural fibers reinforced polyester composites.”
- Comparative Evaluation on Properties of Hybrid Glass Fiber- Sisal/Jute Reinforced Epoxy Composites (2013, background): “Murali Mohan Rao et al [12] have also taking the same factor and they reported the tensile properties of vakka fiber composites increase with volume fraction of fiber and more than the sisal/banana fiber composites.”
- Evaluation of mechanical and thermal properties of banana-flax based natural fibre composite (2014, background): “Mechanical and water absorption characteristics of banana reinforced epoxy composites were studied which shows that addition of sisal fibre up to 50% results in increasing the mechanical properties and decreasing the moisture absorption property [32–34].”
- Recent advances in epoxy resin, natural fiber-reinforced epoxy composites and their applications (2016, background): “Research study is also done to determine the possibilities of introducing new natural fibers as fillers in a polymeric matrix to develop economic and light weight structural materials.(138,139) High-performance composites with improved properties, based on thermosetting polymers can be achieved by s”
- Study on Mechanical Properties of Natural - Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Hybrid Composites: A Review (2015, background): “The flexural properties of vakka fiber composites are closer to the sisal fiber composites and more than that of the banana fiber composites [28].”
- Sound and Vibration Damping Properties of Flax Fiber Reinforced Composites (2014, methodology): “The flexural test was made as per the ASTM D 790 [13].”