Determination of fiber size distributions of injection moulded polypropylene/natural fibers using X-ray microtomography

Advanced Engineering Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 126-130

  Alemdar, Ayse ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Sain, Mohini ^a   Cescutti, Gabriel ^b   Müssig, Jörg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FASERINSTITUT BREMEN E V   (Germany)

^c HOCHSCHULE BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COUPLING AGENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION (FLD); FIBER VOLUME DISTRIBUTION (FVD); FIBER WIDTH DISTRIBUTION (FWD); X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 40049109732     PISSN: 14381656     EISSN: 15272648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adem.200700232     Document Type: Article

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