High performance aligned short natural fibre – Epoxy composites

Pickering, Kim L.; Le, Tan Minh

doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2015.09.046

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“…Natural fibers are not convenient as synthetic fibers to be arranged in parallel. Numerous studies have been conducted recently to maximize the orientation of fiber reinforcement intermediate products, which includes developing wrap spinning, automated fiber placement, dynamic sheet forming, and oriented flax tape [10][11][12][13]. Previous studies proved that newly developed highly aligned flax tape offer maximum mechanical properties compared to traditional textile-based natural fiber composites.…”

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Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites

2020

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Three thermoset resin systems—bio-epoxy, epoxy, and polyester-with 30 v% flax fiber reinforcement have been studied to identify the optimal fiber–resin combination in a typical composite structure. Tensile, interface and interlaminar shear strength together with flexural and impact damage tolerance were compared in this study. The results revealed that mechanical and interfacial properties were not significantly affected by the different resin systems. Microscopy studies reveal that epoxy laminates predominantly fail by fibre linear breakage, polyester laminates by fiber pull-out, and bio-epoxy laminates by a combination of the two. The higher failure strains and pull-out mechanism may explain the better impact damage tolerance of polyester composites. Flow experiments were also conducted, revealing faster impregnation and lower void content with polyester resin, followed by bio-epoxy, due to their lower viscosities. Overall, bio-epoxy resin demonstrates comparable performance to epoxy and polyester resins for use in (semi-)structural bio-composites.

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Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites

2020

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“…Since then, efforts had been undertaken by researchers to improve the ROM model’s prediction accuracy. Among them are Hirsch who merged ROM parallel and ROM series models 7 while Cox developed a shear lag model to calculate fibre length efficiency factor 11,12 and it was later incorporated into ROM parallel. 13,14 Sometime later Krenchel established Krenchel orientation efficiency factor to account for fibre orientation 15 which was incorporated into Cox ROM model 13,14 while Bowyer Bader improved ROM parallel by considering the subcritical and supercritical length fibres contribution to composites tensile properties.…”

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Tensile properties prediction of natural fibre composites using rule of mixtures: A review

Tham

Fazita

Khalil

et al. 2018

Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites

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Rule of mixture models are usually used in the tensile properties prediction of polymer composites reinforced with synthetic fibres. They are less utilized for natural fibre/polymer composites due to natural fibres physical and mechanical properties variability which reduces rule of mixture model's prediction values accuracy compared to the experimental values. This had led to studies conducted by various researchers to improve the existing rule of mixture models to give a better reflection of the true natural fibres properties and enhance the rule of mixture models prediction accuracy. In this paper, rule of mixture model's utilization includes the existing rule of mixture models as well as proposed rule of mixture models which have one or more factors incorporated into existing rule of mixture models for natural fibre/polymer composites tensile properties prediction are reviewed.

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“…It is relatively cost effective, biodegradable, and lightweight material [14–16]. It has been proven by the previous data that composites based on natural fibers can offer comparable properties by supposing they are correctly designed [17,18]. Also, based on previous data, core structures made of natural fibers have been successfully fabricated [19].…”

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Synthesis and characterization of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites as core for honeycomb core structure: A review

Zaini

Azaman

Jamali

et al. 2018

Jnl of Sandwich Structures & Materials

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Researchers have worked on variety of natural fibers reinforced with polymer composites using different parameters to come up with various recommendations. The investigation involved aspects of composition materials and mechanical properties of natural fiber composites. The satisfactory results of natural fiber composites have encouraged researchers to delve deeper into the abilities of natural fiber composite in the form of a core structure. The potentiality of utilizing natural fiber composite in core design has wide potential in modern industries. This paper presents a review on natural fibers and polymer matrices commonly used in core fabrication, core design, fabricating processes of cores, and mechanical properties of cores. Ongoing research of rice husk composites to be fabricated in the form of honeycomb core structures is also discussed.

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High performance aligned short natural fibre – Epoxy composites

Cited by 35 publications

References 25 publications

Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites

Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites

Tensile properties prediction of natural fibre composites using rule of mixtures: A review

Synthesis and characterization of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites as core for honeycomb core structure: A review

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