Mechanical properties of chicken feather fibers

Polymer Composites

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 937-944

  Zhan, Mingjiang ^a   Wool, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN FEATHERS; MEAN VALUES; SCALE PARAMETER; SHAPE PARAMETER VALUE; STRAIN AT BREAK; TENSILE MODULI;

ANIMALS; ELASTIC MODULI; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79956149773     PISSN: 02728397     EISSN: 15480569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pc.21112     Document Type: Article

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