Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 233-241Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(01)00096-3
Keywords
jute fibre
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An impact fatigue study has been made for the first time on 35% jute/vinylester composites containing both untreated and alkali treated fibres. Longer alkali treatment removed the hemicellulose and improved the crystallinity and gave better fibre dispersion. The flexural strength properties of the composites made from treated fibre were superior, 4 h alkali treated jute fibres gave the optimum combination of improved interfacial bonding and fibre strength properties. However this was not reflected in their impact fatigue behaviour. On the contrary, the composites reinforced with 8 h alkali treated fibres displayed superior impact fatigue properties. Here, the fibres suffered catastrophic fracture with microfibrillar pull-out at some places and improved the fatigue resistance property of the composites as evident from SEM micrographs. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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