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A commercially available eco-friendly epoxy resin is proposed as the matrix for a flax fibre composite surfboard as a potential “sustainable” material for component production. The study develops a method for robust production of the surfboards using flax fibre and bio-epoxy resin. The objective of the work is to achieve a balance between economical product, low weight, mechanical performance, improved impact resistance and (outside of this paper) improved environmental credentials. This study seeks to achieve a complete mechanical and thermal characterisation of the flax/eco-epoxy system as an alternative material system to a conventional S-glass/polyester system. For this reason, both systems are completely characterised and their properties compared.
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AHM is grateful to the Santander Postgraduate Internationalisation Scholarship for partial funding of this programme of work.
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Michelena, A.H., Graham-Jones, J., Summerscales, J., Hall, W. (2016). Eco-friendly Flax Fibre/Epoxy Resin/Composite System for Surfboard Production. In: Fangueiro, R., Rana, S. (eds) Natural Fibres: Advances in Science and Technology Towards Industrial Applications. RILEM Bookseries, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7515-1_20
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