Mechanical and thermal properties of date palm leaf fiber reinforced recycled poly (ethylene terephthalate) composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 841-848

  Dehghani, Alireza ^a   Madadi Ardekani, Sara ^a   Al Maadeed, Mariam A ^b   Hassan, Azman ^a   Wahit, Mat Uzir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Date palm leaf fiber; Mechanical properties; Recycled poly (ethylene terephthalate); Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYPROPYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DATE PALM; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (DMA); MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE;

FIBERS;

EID: 84880340827     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.06.022     Document Type: Article

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