Seawater ageing of flax/poly(lactic acid) biocomposites

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Long term immersion in natural seawater of Flax/PLA biocomposite (2014, methodology): “Life expectancy is most often evaluated by accelerated aging tests as performed on Hemp/PLA (Islam et al., 2010), on Flax/epoxy (Scida et al., 2013) and Flax/PLA (Le Duigou et al., 2009a).”
Influence of water ageing on mechanical properties and damage events of two reinforced composite materials: Flax–fibres and glass–fibres (2011, background): “[3] noticed the loss of mechanical properties for a flax–fibre reinforced biopolymer composite aged in natural seawater at different temperatures.”
Accelerated ageing of polylactide in aqueous environments: Comparative study between distilled water and seawater (2014, background): “In a previous study at 60°C, results indicated that degradation at this temperature close to the T g , is very rapid [20].”
Effect of water absorption on pultruded jute/glass fiber-reinforced unsaturated polyester hybrid composites (2012, result): “This finding is in agreement with previously reported work (Figure 2).(23) Figure 3.”
Environmental effects on the mechanical behaviour of pultruded jute/glass fibre-reinforced polyester hybrid composites (2014, unknown): “These results are in agreement with other studies [36,42,43].”