Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma12060881
Keywords
composites; WPC; wood fiber; rice husk; recycled HDPE; thermal properties
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Funding
- Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Anhui [1708085MC56]
- Key Projects of Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Universities in Anhui [KJ2016A220]
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The thermal performance of wood-plastic composites (WPCs) with different fiber, different fiber contents, and different lubricants were investigated in this paper. The results show that the thermal degradation temperature, melting temperature, crystallization temperature, crystallinity, and viscosity of WPCs with wood fiber were slightly higher than those of WPCs with floor sanding powder and rice husk. As the wood fiber content increased, the melting temperature and crystallinity of WPCs decreased while the crystallization temperature, viscosity, and pseudoplasticity increased. When the wood fiber content was increased to 60%, the dimensional stability of WPCs tended to be constant, and a higher wood fiber content was not conducive for processing of WPCs. WPCs had a small coefficient of linear thermal expansion at low temperature and demonstrated a good dimensional stability. The presence of lubricant reduced the viscosity and increased the pseudoplasticity of the WPCs, which is advantageous for the dimensional stability of WPCs at low temperature while making it worse for high temperatures.
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