Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 1-9Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2013.06.002
Keywords
Layered structures; Mechanical properties; Recycling; Wood
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Three-layered structural composites were produced from municipal plastic wastes and wood flour residues to investigate the effects of design parameters on their flexural and impact performance. The studied parameters include wood content, thickness of individual composite layers, as well as stacking sequence and configuration (symmetric and asymmetric structures). The results indicate that the core layer has a lower influence on the flexural properties of structural beams in comparison with the skins. But depending on beam configuration (stacking sequence), different flexural characteristics can be obtained using the same composite layers. The classical beam theory was used to predict the flexural modulus with high precision. In addition, performance of the beams under impact tests was shown to be independent from their stacking sequences and layer thicknesses for each configuration. Crown Copyright (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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