Investigation of microstructure and tensile properties of porous natural coir fibre for use in composite materials

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 437-445

  Tran, L Q N ^a,b   Minh, T Nguyen ^c   Fuentes, C A ^b   Chi, T Truong ^c   Van Vuure, A W ^b   Verpoest, I ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Natural fibres; Tensile properties; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NATURAL FIBERS; POROSITY; STRAIN; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TENSILE TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPOSITE PROPERTIES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MICROFIBRIL ANGLES; MICROFIBRILLAR ANGLE; SEM IMAGE ANALYSIS; TENSILE LOADING; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

FIBERS;

COIR; COMPOSITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY;

LACUNA;

EID: 84952021609     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.10.064     Document Type: Article

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