A Review on the Tensile Properties of Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

Nowadays, the use of natural fiber reinforced polymer-based composites is gradually increasing day by day for their many advantages for civil engineering construction applications. Due to their many advantages for polymer-based composite materials are widely used in civil construction, automobiles, aerospace, and many others. Natural fibers such as jute, kenaf, pineapple, sugarcane, hemp, oil palm, flax, and leaf, etc. are cheap, environmentally friendly, renewable, completely and partially biodegradable which can be utilized to obtain new high-performance polymer materials. These composites are having satisfactory mechanical properties (i.e. tensile properties, flexural stress-strain behavior, fracture toughness, and fracture strength) which make them more attractive than other composites. Due to easy availability and renewability, natural fibers can be used as an alternative of synthetic fibers as a reinforcing agent. The aim of this paper is to review different natural fibers reinforced based polymer composites with mechanical characterization, applications, also shows the opportunities, challenges and future demand of natural composite material towards civil applications.

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“…Bamboo fiber is used for manufacturing bathroom products, decorating items, hygiene products, etc. [37,38]…”

Section: Bamboo Fibermentioning

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Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites: history, types, advantages, and applications

et al. 2019

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“…Among the well‐known natural fiber plants, bamboo is by far one of the most promising reinforcements in biocomposites because of low density with high specific stiffness and strength. Bamboo fibers (BF) are constructed of cellulose microfibrils embedded in an amorphous matrix of hemicellulose and lignin, and they are also composed of bundles bound together with lignin . Recent work shows that such fibers extracted from the culms using a blasting extraction process have the superior tensile properties .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effect of fiber volume fraction on the thermal and mechanical behavior of polylactide‐based composites incorporating bamboo fibers

Wang

Yang

Zhou

et al. 2017

J of Applied Polymer Sci

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Biodegradable composites reinforced with natural fibers are emerging as advanced materials in structural applications. In this work, green biocomposites are fabricated using hot pressing molding technique, polylactic acid selected as a matrix. The samples are prepared with different fiber volume fractions (30%, 40%, and 50%). Tensile tests are conducted on the specimens to investigate the composite mechanical behavior, and the influences of fiber content on the morphological and thermomechanical properties are evaluated using scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and thermogravimetric analysis. There are higher tensile modulus and lower elongation at break for composites with increasing fiber content, respectively. Much variation in the tensile strength is observed when the fiber content is varied, which could be attributed to fiber agglomerations that affect the dispersion of fibers in the matrix, as evidenced by fracture surfaces. Thermal tests demonstrate that the increment of fiber content enhances the glass transition temperature and crystallization temperature of composites. Besides, a comparative analysis of the composites is performed, and the properties of the treated fiber composites are found to be improved compared to those from untreated fibers. Detailed analysis confirms the possibility of the addition of bamboo fibers to a biodegradable matrix for a specific application. V C 2017Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 46148.

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“…Both bamboo fibre and epoxy matrix are considered isotropic while the continuous BFRC is assumed to be transversely isotropic. The properties of bamboo fibres and epoxy matrix [30] used in this study are shown in Table II. The volume fraction of bamboo fibre may vary from 0 to 70%.…”

Section: A Materialsmentioning

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The Elastic Properties of Unidirectional Bamboo Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites

Nurihan*¹,

Hisham²,

Rasid³

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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Natural fibres such as kenaf, jute, bamboo, flax and wood have been the subject of intensive researches in the area of fibre reinforced composite due to their environmental advantages of being renewable, biodegradable and sustainable. Bamboo fibre can be a good choice of natural fibre reinforcement for structural applications due to its excellent strength to weight ratio that is comparable to that of mild steel. In this study, mechanical properties of both continuous and short bamboo fibre reinforced composites are predicted using micromechanical approaches. The finite element method was used where three-dimensional micromechanical representative volume element with square and hexagonal packing geometry was implemented. The results were then compared with the findings from analytical approach that includes the rule of mixture and the Halpin-Tsai model. It was found that for all properties, the FEM and analytical methods give comparable trends of property on volume fraction plots. Furthermore, the longitudinal modulus given by all models are in excellent agreement as it increases linearly with the increase in bamboo fibre volume fraction.Index Terms: Natural fibres, Bamboo fibre, Representative volume element, Rule of mixture, Halpin-Tsai model.

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A Review on the Tensile Properties of Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

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Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites: history, types, advantages, and applications

Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites: history, types, advantages, and applications

Effect of fiber volume fraction on the thermal and mechanical behavior of polylactide‐based composites incorporating bamboo fibers

The Elastic Properties of Unidirectional Bamboo Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites

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