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Mechanical properties of graphene and graphene-based nanocomposites

Characterization and Properties of Natural Fiber Polymer Composites: A Comprehensive Review

An overview on 3D printing technology: Technological, materials, and applications

Composites have been found to be the most promising and discerning material available in this century. Presently, composites reinforced with fibers of synthetic or natural materials are gaining more importance as demands for lightweight materials with high strength for specific applications are growing in the market. Fiber-reinforced polymer composite offers not only high strength to weight ratio, but also reveals exceptional properties such as high durability; stiffness; damping property; flexural strength; and resistance to corrosion, wear, impact, and fire. These wide ranges of diverse features have led composite materials to find applications in mechanical, construction, aerospace, automobile, biomedical, marine, and many other manufacturing industries. Performance of composite materials predominantly depends on their constituent elements and manufacturing techniques, therefore, functional properties of various fibers available worldwide, their classifications, and the manufacturing techniques used to fabricate the composite materials need to be studied in order to figure out the optimized characteristic of the material for the desired application. An overview of a diverse range of fibers, their properties, functionality, classification, and various fiber composite manufacturing techniques is presented to discover the optimized fiber-reinforced composite material for significant applications. Their exceptional performance in the numerous fields of applications have made fiber-reinforced composite materials a promising alternative over solitary metals or alloys.

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Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing, Properties, and Applications.

A comprehensive review of techniques for natural fibers as reinforcement in composites: Preparation, processing and characterization.

The research work investigates the tensile properties of Sansevieria ehrenbergii (SE) fiber and SE fiber-reinforced polyester composite with various water absorption times. The experiments were conducted according to ATSM standards. The simple hand lay-up method followed by compression molding process adopted to prepare the SE fiber-reinforced polyester composites at constant fiber weight fractions. The surface treatment was done on the SE fiber with various chemicals such as NaOH, KMnO4, benzoyl peroxide, benzoyl chloride, and stearic acid. These results show that the tensile strength was dropped off with increase in water absorption time. Among all, the tensile strength was found to be highest for KMnO4-treated SE fiber-reinforced composite compared to other composites. This was due to the highest bonding area between the fiber and matrix compared to other treated fiber composites. The percentage of water absorption for composites increased with water absorption time. The morphology of the tensile fract...

Influence of cellulose water absorption on the tensile properties of polyester composites reinforced with Sansevieria ehrenbergii fibers

This work investigates the crashworthiness of jute fiber mat reinforced epoxy composite circular tubes by introducing holes around the tube circumference. The composite tubes were tested under quas...

Crashworthiness characterization of jute fiber woven mat reinforced epoxy composite tube for structural application using Taguchi’s method

In the current scenario, the paperboard industries are experimenting the reinforcement of their products with various natural fibers. Based on affordability, low weight, biodegradability and recycl...

Characterization of novel Passiflora foetida natural fibers for paper board industry

In the present work, physico-mechanical, chemical composition, and thermal properties of cellulosic fiber extracted from the stem of Hibiscus vitifolius plant have been investigated. The wide chara...

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Papers

Influence of cellulose water absorption on the tensile properties of polyester composites reinforced with Sansevieria ehrenbergii fibers

Crashworthiness characterization of jute fiber woven mat reinforced epoxy composite tube for structural application using Taguchi’s method

Characterization of novel Passiflora foetida natural fibers for paper board industry

Physico-mechanical, Chemical Composition and Thermal Properties of Cellulose Fiber from Hibiscus vitifolius Plant Stalk for Polymer Composites

Mechanical strength retention and service life of Kevlar fiber woven mat reinforced epoxy laminated composites for structural applications