SISAL

About: SISAL is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1878 publications have been published within this topic receiving 55528 citations.

Polypropylene composite material

Abstract: The invention provides a polypropylene composite material including the components in parts by weight: 52 parts of polypropylene, 16 parts of glass fibers, 10 parts of sisal fibers, 6 parts of maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene, 15 parts of a talcum powder, 0.8 part of a silane coupling agent, and 0.2 part of nano lanthanum oxide. The glass fibers and the sisal fibers are mixed for reinforcing the polypropylene, the maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene is used as a compatibilizer for toughening the polypropylene, and a proper amount of the talcum powder is added, so that the reinforcing and toughening purposes are achieved, and the mechanical properties of the composite material are excellent.

Machinable light weight sisal-based concrete structural building material

Abstract: A machinable light weight sisal-based concrete structural building material and a method of making the same are disclosed. The material includes short sisal fibers in a range from about 22% (v/v) to about 33% (v/v); a cement in a range from about 12% (v/v) to about 22% (v/v); and perlite in a range from about 51% (v/v) to about 59% (v/v). The method includes the steps of mixing an amount of cement with an amount of perlite to form a solid mixture; adding water and mixing water with the solid mixture to form a sludge; adding an amount of sisal fibers and mixing the sisal fibers into the sludge to form an uniform final composition; and pouring the final composition into a mold and setting the final composition to a solid form structural building material. The produced structural building material can be machined, screwed, cut, and nailed.

SISAL multiprocessing support

Abstract: In this document the microtasking environment supporting both sequential and parallel execution of SISAL is examined First the internal mechanics of the environment are defined Then, a built-in facility for statically slicing forall loops is introduced And last, the implementation of SISAL streams is discussed They provide an excellent medium by which to exploit pipelined parallelism

Study of hygroscopic properties of some plant fibres under thermal condition

Abstract: The hygroscopic properties such as hygroscopicity, water yielding capacity, capillarity etc of cellulosic plant fibres such as sisal, bowstring hemp (dagger), pineapple, lady's finger and betel-nut annealed from 310 to 430 K have been investigated. The hygroscopicity of the plant fibres at constant relative humidity decreases with an increase in annealing temperature from 310 to 430 K. The bleached and mercerized samples are more hygroscopic than native samples. The rate of sorption of water content at constant relative humidity increases on pre-heating. The water-yielding capacity as well as capillary action at constant relative humidity decreases with increase in annealing temperature.

Effect of Surface Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of Banana-Glass Fibre Hybrid Composites

Abstract: Natural fibre reinforced composites have attracted the attention of research community mainly because they are turning out to be an alternative to synthetic fibre. Various natural fibres such as jute, sisal, palm, coir and banana are used as reinforcements. In this paper, banana fibres and glass fibres have been used as reinforcement. Hybrid epoxy polymer composite was fabricated using chopped banana/glass fibre and the effect of alkali treatment was also studied. It is found that the alkali treatment improved the mechanical properties of the composite.