Fineness and tensile properties of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) fibres

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-17

  Rahman Khan, Md Majibur ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Belsham, Tamara ^a   Laguë, Claude ^b   Landry, Hubert ^c   Peng, Qingjin ^a   Zhong, Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMP; HEMP FIBERS; SEED; TENSILE TESTING;

CANNABIS SATIVA; CLAMPING LENGTHS; FIBRE DIAMETERS; FIBRE TENSILE STRENGTH; LIGHT WEIGHT; MAXIMUM STRAINS; STRENGTH TESTING; WORK OF RUPTURES;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 78650194181     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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