Improvement of plant based natural fibers for toughening green composites-Effect of load application during mercerization of ramie fibers

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2213-2220

  Goda, Koichi ^a   Sreekala, M S ^a   Gomes, Alexandre ^a   Kaji, Takeshi ^a   Ohgi, Junji ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. Fibres; B. Mechanical properties; Biomaterials; E. Surface treatments

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; MERCERIZATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

TENSILE LOADING;

NATURAL FIBERS;

ELASTIC STRENGTH; FIBRILS; MERCERIZATION; RAMIE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 33751014837     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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