Predicting the tensile strength of natural fibre reinforced thermoplastics

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 2454-2466

  Facca, Angelo G ^a   Kortschot, Mark T ^a   Yan, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. Discontinuous reinforcement; A. Thermoplastic resin; B. Mechanical properties; C. Analytical modeling

Indexed keywords

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; LOADING (TESTING); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; NATURAL FIBER; STRENGTH; TENSILE PROPERTY; THERMOPLASTIC FIBER;

EID: 34248561918     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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