A Review: Natural Fiber Composites Selection in View of Mechanical, Light Weight, and Economic Properties

By F. Ahmad, H. Choi, M. Park. 2015

606 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. S. Sinha Ray
2. S. Panthapulakkal
3. G. Prusty
4. Dzung Viet Dao
5. Huaizhong Li
6. Amir Lotfi
7. M. Sain

In Mechanics of Materials

1. S. Sinha Ray
2. Roszilah Hamid
3. R. Ahmad
4. Siti Aminah Osman
5. M. Sain

In Polymers and Plastics

1. M. Sain
2. S. Panthapulakkal
3. S. Sinha Ray
4. Roszilah Hamid
5. R. Ahmad
6. Siti Aminah Osman
7. Kristiina Oksman
8. J. Rhim

Citations in the corpus

• Hydrophobic treatment of natural fibers and their composites—A review (2018, background): “The acceptable mechanical properties of natural fiber composites such as elongation, ultimate breaking force, flexural properties, impact strength, acoustic absorption, suitability for processing, and crash behavior increases its demand for automobile components [35].”
• Emerging Trends in Automotive Lightweighting through Novel Composite Materials (2016, background): “Applications of natural fiber composites in vehicles by different manufacturers [15].”
• The challenges of natural fiber in manufacturing, material selection, and technology application: A review (2018, background): “Previous studies have shown that by performing chemical treatments, such as surface modification, the quality of the natural fibers can be improved for better fiber matrix bonding.(5) Also, natural fiber composites have attractive environmental and economic viewpoints and the capabilities to meet hu”
• Physical and Chemical Modifications of Plant Fibres for Reinforcement in Cementitious Composites (2019, background): “Enzyme treatment is progressively popular, with benefits related to environmental friendliness [170], and the reaction catalysed from this treatment is very specific, focusing on the particular performance required.”
• Recent progress on natural fiber hybrid composites for advanced applications: A review (2019, background): “It can be argued that a tremendous success has been made on the surface treatment of natural fibers to improve the overall properties of the resulting composite materials as discussed in these review studies [1, 2, 4, 5].”