Tensile strength as a function of sisal fiber diameter through a weibull analysis

65th ABM International Congress, 18th IFHTSE Congress and 1st TMS/ABM International Materials Congress 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 5021-5030

  Inacio, Wellington Pereira ^a   Duarte Lopes, Felipe Perisse ^a   Monteiro, Sergio Neves ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fracture observation; Sisal fiber; Tensile test; Weibull analysis

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; FIBER COMPOSITE; INVERSE DEPENDENCE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SISAL FIBERS; WEIBULL ANALYSIS;

NATURAL FIBERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC FIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84893212748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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