Mechanical properties of randomly oriented short Sansevieria cylindrica fibre/polyester composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2444-2455

  Sreenivasan, V S ^a   Ravindran, D ^b   Manikandan, V ^c   Narayanasamy, R ^d  

^a DR SIVANTHI ADITANAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^c S Veerasamy Chettiyar College of Engineering and Technology   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE IV; CRYSTALLINITY INDEX; ELONGATION AT BREAK; FIBRE LENGTH; FLEXURAL STRENGTH; IMPACT PROPERTY; IMPACT TEST; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; TENSILE TESTS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WEIGHT PERCENT; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CRYSTALLITE SIZE; FIBERS; IMPACT STRENGTH; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE TESTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79251636152     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.11.042     Document Type: Article

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