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Advances in Natural Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Manufacturing: Effect of Interface and Hybrid Yarn Structure on Composite Properties

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Advances in Natural Fibre Composites

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Natural fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite materials are becoming very popular in the material community due to several advantages of natural fibre and thermoplastic polymer. The demand of stronger and better composite than the existing ones is also increasing simultaneously with their growing popularity. However, natural fibre reinforced thermoplastics have some disadvantages associate with the poor fibre-matrix interaction, short length of the natural fibres and high melt viscosity of thermoplastic resins. All these factors decrease the ultimate mechanical properties of the natural fibre composites. However, the surface treatment of natural fibres, use of low twisted yarn and hybrid yarn during composite manufacturing significantly improve the mechanical properties of the natural fibre composites. The scope of all three approaches in determining composites mechanical properties have been reviewed here. Finally, the combined effects of interface and DREF spun hybrid yarn structure on the tensile and flexural properties of flax-PP based unidirectional composite specimen have been discussed in this chapter.

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    Mahadev Bar, R. Alagirusamy & Apurba Das

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    Sohel Rana

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Bar, M., Alagirusamy, R., Das, A. (2018). Advances in Natural Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Manufacturing: Effect of Interface and Hybrid Yarn Structure on Composite Properties. In: Fangueiro, R., Rana, S. (eds) Advances in Natural Fibre Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64641-1_10

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