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Bending Mechanical Behavior of Polyester Matrix Reinforced with Fique Fiber

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Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015

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Environmentally correct composites, made from natural fibers, are among the most investigated and applied today. In this paper, we investigate the mechanical behavior of polyester matrix composites reinforced with continuous fique fibers, through bending tensile tests. Specimens containing 0, 10, 20 and 30% in volume of fique fiber were aligned along the entire length of a mold to create plates of these composites, those plates were cut following the ASTM standard to obtained bending tests specimens. The test was conducted in a Instron Machine and the fractured specimens were analyzed by SEM, the results showed the increase in the materials tensile properties with the increase of fiber amount.

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  1. State University of the Northern Rio de Janeiro, UENF, Advanced Materials Laboratory, LAMAV, Av. Alberto Lamego, 2000, 28013-602, Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil

    Giulio Rodrigues Altoé, Pedro Amoy Netto, Mariana Barcelos, André Gomes & Frederico Muylaert Margem

  2. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, IME, Praça Gen. Tibúrcio, nº80 Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22290-270, Brazil

    Sergio Neves Monteiro

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  1. Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Canada

    John S. Carpenter (technical staff member) (technical staff member)

  2. Department of Metallurgical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, China

    Chenguang Bai (Professor) (Professor)

  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Australia at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

    Juan Pablo Escobedo (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang (Professor) (Professor)

  5. University of Jordan, Jordan

    Shadia Ikhmayies B.Sc. from the physics department

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Materials Processing, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Bowen Li (Research Associate Professor) (Research Associate Professor)

  7. CanmetMATERIALS in Natural Resources Canada, Canada

    Jian Li (research scientist) (research scientist)

  8. Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Sergio Neves Monteiro (Professor) (Professor)

  9. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Zhiwei Peng (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member) (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member)

  10. Central South University, China

    Zhiwei Peng (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member) (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member)

  11. ArcelorMittal Global R&D, East Chicago, Indiana, USA

    Mingming Zhang (a senior research engineer) (a senior research engineer)

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Altoé, G.R., Netto, P.A., Barcelos, M., Gomes, A., Margem, F.M., Monteiro, S.N. (2015). Bending Mechanical Behavior of Polyester Matrix Reinforced with Fique Fiber. In: Carpenter, J.S., et al. Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48191-3_14

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