Improvement in mechanical properties of jute fibres through mild alkali treatment as demonstrated by utilisation of the Weibull distribution model

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 222-228

  Roy, Aparna ^a   Chakraborty, Sumit ^a   Kundu, Sarada Prasad ^a   Basak, Ratan Kumar ^a   Basu Majumder, Subhasish ^a   Adhikari, Basudam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Alkali treatment; Jute fibre; Moisture content; Statistical analysis; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

ALKALI TREATMENT; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; CRYSTALLINITY INDEX; ELONGATION AT BREAK; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NATURAL REINFORCEMENTS; SODIUM HYDROXIDES;

HYDROPHILICITY; JUTE FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SODIUM; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALKALI; CRYSTALLIN; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ALKALINITY; COMPOSITE; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT PRODUCT; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIBULL THEORY;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; JUTE; MECHANICS; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALKALIES; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGNIN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS;

EID: 84856560131     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.11.073     Document Type: Article

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