Thermal behavior of chemically treated and untreated sisal fiber reinforced composites fabricated by resin transfer molding

Composite Interfaces

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 629-650

  Sreekumar, P A ^a,b   Saiah, Redouan ^b   Saiter, Jean Marc ^b   Leblanc, Nathalie ^c   Joseph, Kuruvilla ^d   Unnikrishnan, G ^a   Thomas, Sabu ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Génie des Matériaux de l Aliment LGMA   (France)

^d ST BERCHMANS COLLEGE   (India)

^e MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

FIBER TREATMENT; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149133697     PISSN: 09276440     EISSN: 15685543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855408785971317     Document Type: Article

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