Tensile and compressive behaviour of multilayer flax-rib knitted preform reinforced epoxy composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 400-405

  Muralidhar, B A ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FLAX; GLASS FIBERS; KNITTING MACHINERY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; PREFORMING; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

CELLULOSE MICROFIBRILS; COMPRESSIVE TESTS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FLAX FIBRES; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HOT PRESS; KNITTED STRUCTURES; KNITTING MACHINES; LOW DENSITY; NATURAL COMPOSITES; REINFORCED EPOXY; STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS;

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EID: 84874767736     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.040     Document Type: Article

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