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Evaluation and Comparison of Date Palm Fibers with Other Common Natural Fibers

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Date Palm Fiber Composites

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The developed awareness toward sustainability raised the importance of developing and using green products of natural fibers and natural fiber composites instead of the conventional products. However, this is a long path, and an enormous effort should be paid in order to enhance the performance properties of these green composites and to spread their use for new applications. The performance properties including the mechanical properties (stiffness, strength, etc.), the physical properties (density, appearance, etc.), thermal stability, moisture resistance, degradability and others, making the selection of the most fit fiber types for industrial application is a very complex task. Improving these properties of natural fiber composites can be achieved by the appropriate selection of the composite materials constituents through reliable decision-making methods. Such methods should also evaluate the green composites in combined evaluation criteria. Date palm fibers were compared and evaluated against other common natural fibers used for composites. It was shown that date palm fibers have a potential for natural fiber composites with various environmental conditions. Such reliable evaluations of natural fibers would help finding the potential of the new composites for various industrial applications.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan

    Faris M. AL-Oqla

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  1. Department of Materials Engineering, German University in Cairo, New Cairo City, Egypt

    Mohamad Midani

  2. Laboratory of Technology Biocomposite, INTROP, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Naheed Saba

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Othman Y. Alothman

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AL-Oqla, F.M. (2020). Evaluation and Comparison of Date Palm Fibers with Other Common Natural Fibers. In: Midani, M., Saba, N., Alothman, O.Y. (eds) Date Palm Fiber Composites. Composites Science and Technology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9339-0_10

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