Plant fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite: a discussion on composite fabrication and characterization technique
Environmental awareness and depletion of petroleum resource issues have triggered an enormous interest in utilizing natural fiber as environmentally friendly and sustainable materials as an alternative to existing materials. Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites have many advantages like avail...
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| Summary: | Environmental awareness and depletion of petroleum resource issues have triggered an enormous interest in
utilizing natural fiber as environmentally friendly and sustainable materials as an alternative to existing
materials. Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites have many advantages like availability, inexpensive,
renewable, minimal health hazards, relative high specific strength and modulus, lightweight, and biodegradable.
However, the physical properties of natural fiber had large variation according to plant originality, plant
maturity, location in plant, retting and treatment technique and composite processing technique. Furthermore,
their applications are still limited due to several factors like hydrophilic nature of plant fiber which lead to poor
compatibility between plant fiber and polymer matrix, high moisture absorption, poor wettability, restricted
processing temperature and poor dimensional stability. Therefore, this review gives a short review of recent
literature focused on the plant fiber reinforced thermosetting matrix composite. These include plant fiber
preparation, composite fabrication technique, fiber-matrix volume fraction and composite material
characterization. The composite characterization will highlight the commonly used mechanical, thermal, water
and moisture properties evaluation. Few areas of further study have been stressed to attempt the
abovementioned challenges in plant fiber reinforced thermosetting matrix composite fabrication. |
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