CHAPTER 6. Natural Fibre Composites: Automotive Applications

Furtado, Samuel; Silva, A. J.; Alves, Camila Xavier; Reis, Luisa Fernanda Ribeiro; Freitas, M.; Ferrão, Paulo

doi:10.1039/9781849735193-00118

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“…Composite classification according to fibers alignment. Font: Prepared by the authors and adapated from [2].…”

Section: Sugarcanea Novel Platformmentioning

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“…Classification of natural fibers according to their origin. Font: Prepared by the authors and adapted from [2] A breakthrough related to NFs was achieved with the incursion of nanocellulose, a new material with properties never seen to date [8]. Nanocellulose refers to cellulosic fibers or crystals with nanometric scale dimensions (1-100 nm in diameter).…”

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Bagasse sugarcane fibers as reinforcement agents for natural composites: description and polymer composite applications

Díaz-Ramírez

Maradei

Vargas-Linares

2019

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Even some natural resources, considered as waste, can be used for manufacturing a lot of products with enhanced sustainable properties, such as cellulosic bagasse. In this review was performed in order to gather state of the art about natural fibers structure, properties, and applications in polymer composites reinforcement, giving an approach of bagasse sugarcane fibers. The literature was done in different scientific databases;more than 50 papers wereanalyzed. The vegetable fibersare an extensive and multipurpose group, bagasse sugarcane fibers emerge as a remarkable renewable resource, due to their suitable properties and a large amount of available resources worldwide. Nevertheless, this kind of products require the use of adequacy physical and chemical treatments in order to achieve an adequate proper interaction with polymer matrices, additionally, other characteristics as the geometry and fiber content can influence the performance as reinforcements in composite materials.

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“…Composite classification according to fibers alignment. Font: Prepared by the authors and adapated from [2].…”

Section: Sugarcanea Novel Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bagasse sugarcane fibers as reinforcement agents for natural composites: description and polymer composite applications

Díaz-Ramírez

Maradei

Vargas-Linares

2019

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“…Source: Suddell (2003) All the major car manufacturers, like Daimler Chrysler, BMW Group, General Motors or Toyota, now use bio-based composites in various applications (Furtado et al, 2012). The recent reports are pointing out the importance of vegetable fibres and bio-composites in the automotive industry, where many of their advantages, like the above, are presented.…”

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Natural fibre-reinforced composite parts for automotive applications

Furtado

Araújo²,

Silva

et al. 2014

IJAUTOC

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In this paper, we conduct a brief revision of the state-of-the-art on vegetable fibre-reinforced composite applications in the automotive industry. We then present some results for the dynamic characterisation of an auto part made of jute fibres and an equivalent one made of traditional glass fibres, where the increase in damping is most evident. An inverse characterisation Natural fibre-reinforced composite parts for automotive applications 19 method based on the free vibration response of composite plate specimens is also applied to estimate damped material parameters in vegetable fibre-reinforced composites. The obtained results are compared with the ones obtained with equivalent specimens made of glass fibre and future application of this technique to the study of environmental parameters on the material properties is proposed.

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“…Reinforcements for the composites can be fibers and fillers or particles. [5] Fibers are the most widely used reinforcement material [12] and enormous research work has been carried out on natural fibers reinforced composites. [5,13] Fillers are another type of reinforcement dispersed in the matrix phase.…”

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“…These fillers tend to restrict the movement of the matrix phase in the vicinity of each particle, leading to an improvement in the mechanical strength of the composite material. [12] Limited research work has been reported using natural filler/particle reinforced polymer composite. Some researchers reported the research work on the utilization of groundnut/peanut shell or peanut shell as filler to improve the physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of composites.…”

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Physico‐mechanical properties of tamarind pod shell‐based composite

2019

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The main objective and novelty of this study is to investigate the effect of particle size and alkali treatment on physical, mechanical properties of tamarind pod shell (TPS)‐reinforced epoxy composites. The treated and untreated composites were fabricated with different particle sizes with TPS content of 10 wt%. The mechanical, physical, and morphological properties of specimens were investigated. It was revealed that the density and mechanical properties of the treated and untreated composites increased with the decrease in the particle size; whereas, the water absorption percentage and void content decreased for the same. The treated composite with the particle size of 75 μm exhibited the maximum tensile, flexural, and compressive strength. Further, the multiscale finite element (FE) model was developed using the Digimat‐FE software to simulate the tensile behavior of composites with different particle size. The simulation results revealed that the stress concentration level was more in the vicinity of the voids, and the higher stress concentration was observed in the matrix phase with the increase in particle size. Also, it was found that the predicted results from the multiscale FE model showed a good agreement with the experimental results. The results suggested that the TPS filled epoxy composites have potential utility in the fields of automotive interior panels, particulate board panels, household goods, packaging materials, building partitions, and many other applications.

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CHAPTER 6. Natural Fibre Composites: Automotive Applications

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Bagasse sugarcane fibers as reinforcement agents for natural composites: description and polymer composite applications

Bagasse sugarcane fibers as reinforcement agents for natural composites: description and polymer composite applications

Natural fibre-reinforced composite parts for automotive applications

Physico‐mechanical properties of tamarind pod shell‐based composite

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