Some of the properties of wood-plastic composites

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2637-2644

  Wechsler, Andrea ^a   Hiziroglu, Salim ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL BÍO BÍO   (Chile)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling agent; Fiber; Particle; Radiata pine; Wood plastic composites

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BENDING STRENGTH; COUPLING AGENTS; FUNGICIDES; MIXTURES; PIGMENTS; POLYPROPYLENES; SOFTWOODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FIBER-BASED SPECIMENS; THICKNESS SWELLING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

ADDITIVES; BENDING STRENGTH; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COUPLING AGENTS; FUNGICIDES; MIXTURES; PIGMENTS; POLYPROPYLENES; SOFTWOODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPOSITE; PLASTIC; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOOD;

ADDITIVES; BEND STRENGTH; COUPLING AGENTS; FUNGICIDES; PIGMENT; PINUS RADIATA; POLYMER WOOD COMBINATIONS; POLYPROPYLENE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 33847038846     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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