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JOURNAL OF REINFORCED PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 579-599Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0731684407075536
Keywords
microstructure; composite; wood; flax; pulp; strength; compounding; injection molding
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Injection molded short natural fiber composites (NFC) are studied in this article. Micromechanical models are employed to investigate effects of fiber length distribution, fiber orientation, and fiber/matrix adhesion on mechanical performance of NFCs. A parametric study showed that length/diameter ratio strongly affects the composite strength, whereas fiber strength has very little influence on strength of the composites when fiber/matrix adhesion is poor. In order to verify conclusions based on theoretical predictions, modeling results are compared with experimental results of wood powder-, flax-, pulp-, and glass fiber composites. Recommendations on improvement of strength of NFC through change of the internal structure of the materials are formulated based on results of this investigation.
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