Elementary flax fibre tensile properties: Correlation between stress-strain behaviour and fibre composition

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 762-769

  Lefeuvre, Anaële ^a,b,c   Bourmaud, Alain ^b   Morvan, Claudine ^a   Baley, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^c SCA Teillage du plateau du Neubourg ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Cell wall composition; Flax fibres; Mechanical tensile properties; Non linear behaviour; Stress strain curves

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE MICROFIBRILS; DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS; FLAX FIBRES; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; STRESS STRAIN BEHAVIOURS; TENSILE BEHAVIOUR; THRESHOLD POINT;

CELLULOSE; FLAX; LINEN; LOADING; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE TESTING; YARN;

FIBERS;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE; DICOTYLEDON; NONLINEARITY; PLANT PRODUCT; POLYSACCHARIDE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84890816942     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.11.043     Document Type: Article

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