A parametric study of mechanical and flammability properties of biochar reinforced polypropylene composites

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 177-188

  Ikram, Shafaq ^a   Das, Oisik ^a   Bhattacharyya, Debes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

A. Biocomposite; B. Mechanical properties; B. Thermal properties; C. Statistical properties methods

Indexed keywords

COUPLING AGENTS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FLAMMABILITY; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; REINFORCED PLASTICS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BIO-COMPOSITES; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; FLAMMABILITY PROPERTIES; PEAK HEAT RELEASE RATES; POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES/METHODS; TAGUCHI'S DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; TENSILE AND FLEXURAL PROPERTIES;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84991728729     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.10.010     Document Type: Article

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