Performance of cotton-kapok fabric-polyester composites

Polymer Testing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-198

  Mwaikambo, Leonard Y ^a   Bisanda, Elias T N ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BENDING STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; IMPACT RESISTANCE; POLYESTERS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TENSILE STRENGTH; VOLUME FRACTION; WEATHERING;

COTTON KAPOK; FIBER MATRIX ADHESION; POLYESTER RESIN; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

COTTON FIBERS;

EID: 0032689014     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9418(98)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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