Physico-chemical characterization of Tunisian plant fibers and its utilization as reinforcement for plaster based composites

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 357-365

  Hamza, Sabrine ^a   Saad, Houda ^a,b   Charrier, Bertrand ^b   Ayed, Naceur ^a   Charrier El Bouhtoury, Fatima ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b IUT des Pays de l'Adour   (France)

Author keywords

Alfa leaves; Date palm stipe; Fiber plaster composites; Palm leaflets; Properties; Rush stems

Indexed keywords

ALFA LEAVES; DATE PALM; PALM LEAFLETS; PROPERTIES; RUSH STEMS;

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PLASTER; REINFORCEMENT; TEXTILE FIBERS;

HARDWOODS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EVERGREEN TREE; LIGNIN; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SATURATION; WOOD;

COMPOSITES; ESPARTO; FIBERS; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; LEAVES; PLANTS; PLASTER; REINFORCEMENT; STEMS; TEXTILE FIBERS;

TUNISIA;

EID: 84879472940     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.04.052     Document Type: Article

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