16 Fracture Toughness of the Natural Fiber‐Reinforced Composites: A Review 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Factors Affecting the Fracture Energy of the Biocomposites 16.3 Conclusion Acknowledgments References
20 17 Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Hybrid Flax/Basalt Fiber Polymer Composites 17.1 Introduction 17.2 Materials and Methods 17.3 Result and Discussion 17.4 Conclusions Acknowledgments References
21 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Commonly used natural fibers and their mechanical behaviors.Table 1.2 Commonly used natural fibers in hybrid composites and their chemica...Table 1.3 Manufacturing processes of some hybrid (mainly natural) FRP composi...Table 1.4 Benefits and drawbacks of natural FRP hybrid composites.Table 1.5 Mechanical behaviors of bagasse/jute, bamboo/MFC, and banana/kenaf ...Table 1.6 Mechanical behaviors of banana/sisal, coconut/cork, coir/silk, corn...Table 1.7 Mechanical behaviors of cotton/kapok, cotton/ramie, and jute/oil pa...Table 1.8 Mechanical behaviors of kenaf/PALF, roselle/sisal, and silk/sisal F...
2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Mechanical properties of human bone [18].Table 2.2 Various porous biocomposites developed.Table 2.3 Mechanical properties of additive manufactured porous structure.
3 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Mechanical performances of various biocomposites.Table 3.2 Bionanocomposites produced by extrusion and internal‐melt blending.Table 3.3 Static mechanical properties of bionanocomposites reinforced by var...Table 3.4 The single fiber reinforced biocomposites in DMA analysis.Table 3.5 Summary of dynamic mechanical properties of hybrid biocomposites.Table 3.6 Dynamic mechanical properties of bionanocomposites reinforced by va...
4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Physical and mechanical properties of some commercial natural fiber...Table 4.2 Technological properties of polypropylene/wood composites depending...Table 4.3 Mechanical properties of WPCs at 40% wood fiber or wood flour conte...Table 4.4 Main mechanical properties of polypropylene/wood composites with or...Table 4.5 Comparison of average tensile properties and cost of nanocrystallin...
5 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Specifications of strain gauge drill tool dynamometer (PolyLab‐Make...Table 5.2 Constant tool geometry of HSS twist drill bits utilized in this stu...Table 5.3 Levels and factors of machining parameters.Table 5.4 L9 orthogonal array and experimental values of torque and thrust fo...Table 5.5 S/N ratio for torque/thrust force.Table 5.6 ANOVA responses for thrust force.Table 5.7 ANOVA responses for torque.Table 5.8 Experimental confirmation and predicted torque and thrust force.
6 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Peak height of tan δ curve and Tg obtained from E″ and tan δ...Table 6.2 Storage modulus, loss modulus, and tan δ values for different ...
7 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Mechanical properties of natural fibers [7].Table 7.2 Mechanical properties of different natural fibers with alkaline tre...
8 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Details of fabricated composite.Table 8.2 Crystallinity property of fiber.
9 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Fabrication qualities of the epoxy composite samples.
10 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Mechanical properties of PF/CMF hybrid fiber composites.Table 11.2 Tensile strength of natural rubber, and raw and treated bagasse fi...Table 11.3 Mechanical strength of different combinations of jute fiber compos...Table 11.4 Mechanical properties of composites with filler contents.Table 11.5 Comparison of results of various composite specimens.Table 11.6 Summary of the effect of nano‐fillers on the physical and mechanic...
11 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Composite designation.
12 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Material specifications of the sisal fiber and epoxy resin.Table 14.2 Tensile properties of the composites against the fiber loading.Table 14.3 Flexural properties of the composites against the fiber loading.
13 Chapter 16Table 16.1 Fracture modes in composites and their applications.Table 16.2 ASTM standards to measure fracture toughness in composites based o...
14 Chapter 17Table 17.1 Properties of flax and basalt fiber.Table 17.2 Properties of polyester resin.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Descriptive molecular structure of both (a) thermoplastic and (b)...Figure 1.2 Schematic illustration of different orientations and stacking seq...Figure 1.3 Improved mechanical properties of hybrid flax–basalt fibers FRP c...Figure 1.4 Flowchart of preparation and characterization of the hybrid FRP c...Figure 1.5 Frictional coefficients of (a) treated and (b) untreated sisal/gl...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Schematic view of the bone.Figure 2.2 Key requirements of a scaffold for osteochondral tissue engineeri...Figure 2.3 Schematic diagram of Powder Bed Fusion process.Figure 2.4 Schematic of Fused Deposition Modeling.Figure 2.5 Porous scaffold with cubical pore. (a) Porous scaffold. (b) Detai...Figure 2.6 Different topology of pore structure.Figure 2.7 Porous scaffold specimen fabricated using biocomposite (polyamide...
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 General schematic of a DMA instrumente.
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Classification of natural fibers.Figure 4.2 (a) Flax sliver, (b) hemp sliver, (c) flax hackling