Coconut fibre reinforced polyethylene composites: effect of natural waxy surface layer of the fibre on fibre/matrix interfacial bonding and strength of composites
By M. Brahmakumar, C. Pavithran, R. M. Pillai. 2005
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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics
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Citations in the corpus
- A review of current development in natural fiber composites for structural and infrastructure applications (2010, neutral): “20 [26]”
- Assessing Mechanical Properties of Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites for Engineering Applications (2012, background): “[13] reported that these composites were used as a source of energy to make shelters, clothes, construction of weapons.”
- Vegetal fibers in polymeric composites: a review (2015, background): “Polyethylene (PE) banana[123], green coconut husks[124], rice husk[125], sisal[126], sugarcane bagasse[22]”
- Polylactic acid (PLA) biocomposites reinforced with coir fibres: Evaluation of mechanical performance and multifunctional properties (2014, background): “[26] demonstrated that the natural waxy surface layer of coir fibres provided a strong interfacial bonding between fibres and LDPE matrices.”
- KENAF FIBRES AS REINFORCEMENT FOR POLYMERIC COMPOSITES: A REVIEW (2009, background): “Coupling agents and radical induced adhesion enhance interfacial bonding through producing covalent bonds between the fibre and the matrix (Brahmakumar et al. 2005; Abdelmouleh et al. 2007).”