Effect of water, seawater and alkaline solution ageing on mechanical properties of flax fabric/epoxy composites used for civil engineering applications

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 99, Issue , 2015, Pages 118-127

  Yan, Libo ^a,b   Chouw, Nawawi ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Wilhelm Klauditz Institut (WKI)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Degradation; Durability; Flax FRP; Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

BENDING TESTS; CARBON; DEGRADATION; DURABILITY; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FLAX; LINEN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; DURABILITY PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL STRENGTHENING; FIBRE-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES; INTERFACIAL BONDING; LONG-TERM IMMERSIONS; SYNTHETIC COMPOSITES; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 84942590752     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.09.025     Document Type: Article

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