Mechanical Properties of Natural-Fibre-Mat- Reinforced Thermoplastics based on Flax Fibres and Polypropylene

By S. Garkhail, R. Heijenrath, T. Peijs. 2000

298 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. D. Shah
2. T. Peijs
3. B. Alcock
4. N. Cabrera
5. N. Barkoula
6. J. Loos
7. L. Avérous
8. Susheel Kalia

In Mechanics of Materials

1. D. Shah
2. N. Barkoula
3. Susheel Kalia
4. B. Nyström
5. Mikael Skrifvars
6. A. Dufresne
7. S. Goutianos
8. I. Verpoest

In Polymers and Plastics

1. D. Shah
2. T. Peijs
3. B. Alcock
4. N. Cabrera
5. L. Avérous
6. Susheel Kalia
7. N. Barkoula
8. B. Kaith

Citations in the corpus

• Influence of processing and chemical treatment of flax fibres on their composites (2001, background): “suggest an optimisation of the fibre opening process to increase the fibre strength in this way [3].”
• The effect of fibre volume fraction and mercerization on the properties of all-cellulose composites (2008, unknown): “where rc is the strength of the composites, gf is the fibre efficiency factor for composite strength considering stress transfer from the matrix to the fibres, g0 is the fibre orientation factor (g0 = 1 for a UD composite and g0 = 3/8 for a 2D (in-plane) composite), rf is the strength of fibres, Vf ”
• Development of Flax Fibre based Textile Reinforcements for Composite Applications (2006, background): “Because of the short fibres and their random organisation the resulting composites exhibit relatively poor mechanical properties and are not suitable for use in more structural components [ 2 ].”
• The mechanical properties of woven tape all-polypropylene composites (2007, background): “A summary of the mechanical properties for woven tape fabric plates is presented in Table 7, with a comparison to commercial glass reinforced PP composites: a typical glass mat reinforced PP (GMT, quadrant composites), a continuous, woven glass fibre reinforced PP (Twintex , Saint Gobain–Vetrotex) a”
• Developing plant fibre composites for structural applications by optimising composite parameters: a critical review (2013, background): “As a significant amount of research on PFRPs has focussed on short-fibre randomly oriented composites, based on the compression moulding of nonwovens (typically lf ≈ 3-30 mm [8, 11, 129]) or the injection/extrusion moulding of pellets/granules (typically lf ≈ 0.”
• Cellulose-Based Bio- and Nanocomposites: A Review (2011, background): “[80] which concluded that fiber length affect the strength and modulus of the composites for small fiber lengths whilst after a specific value for the length the two parameters are constant.”